Germantown

[ jur-muh n-toun ]

/ ˈdʒɜr mənˌtaʊn /

a NW section of Philadelphia, Pa.: American defeat by British 1777.

a town in SW Tennessee.

a town in SE Wisconsin.

Informal. any U.S. city neighborhood heavily populated with persons of German descent.

Example sentences from the Web for germantown

They had three young children and lived in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

The FBI File Heist That Changed History |Bonnie Bertram, Drew Magratten |January 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The plan of attack formed by Washington for the battle of Germantown was fully justified by the result.

Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 |John Frederick Schroeder
At the action of Germantown his gallantry was publicly applauded by Washington upon the field of glory.

Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution |L. Carroll Judson
Bidding farewell to his kind host and other friends in Germantown, he started for Dayton, Ohio.

The Life of John Taylor |B. H. Roberts

She returned from Germantown bursting with enthusiastic details.

Dear Enemy |Jean Webster
The prudent Quakers of Germantown rejoice in a free library without a novel, and a librarian who never read one.

The Galaxy, April, 1877 |Various