outland Germans

noun

Germans living abroad, in a foreign land.

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Meanings

nounoutland Germans pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyGermans living abroad, in a foreign land.

    The little figures, he tells them, represent, according to color, 200 to 50,000 outland Germans each.

    1936 December 7, LIFE, page 28
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    Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.

    1919, William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy, page 402

    And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe […]

    2001 June 12, Mike Echo Mike, “Why do I fly !!!”, in rec.aviation.student (Usenet)

Origin

Calque of the German term Auslandsdeutsche.

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