The Collaborative International Dictionary
Germain \Ger*main"\, a. [Obs.] See Germane.
Wiktionary
a. (obsolete form of germane English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Germain, the French variant of the name Germanus, may refer to:
People
- Adrienne Germain, American women's health advocate
- Columbus Germain, American politician
- Sophie Germain, French mathematician
- Paul Germain, American animation producer
- George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British Secretary of State during the American Revolutionary War
- Goermans, a harpsichord-making family
- Germain de Brie, French poet, writing in Latin
- Ivor Germain (born 1923), a Barbadian boxer of the 1940s and 1950s
- Bruno Germain, French association football player
- Valère Germain, French association football player, son of Bruno
As a pseudonym
- "Mr. KABC", Marc Germain, a radio talk show host in Los Angeles, California
- Ernest Mandel, pseudonym for a Trotskyist politician
In sports and entertainment
- Germain Arena, an arena in Estero, Florida
- Germain Racing, a NASCAR racing team
- Germain Amphitheater, a concert venue in Columbus, Ohio
In business
- Ateliers Germain, a pioneer Belgian carmaker
Ships
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, the former French train ferry Saint Germain renamed for her voyage to India for scrapping
Usage examples of "germain".
Germain sooner, and the ambassador will not be astonished at this reply, as it is like many others given on similar occasions.
Germain had got over the king by arranging a laboratory where he occasionally tried to amuse himself, though he knew little about chemistry, but the king was the victim of an almost universal weariness.
Germain had given her the water of perpetual youth, and therefore felt obliged to make the chemist a good return.
Germain had gone by Emden and had embarked for England, where he had arrived in safety.
Germain had the art of making diamonds which only differed from the real ones in weight, and which, according to him, would make his fortune.
Germain, who had been put in that fearful condition by a female gnome, who had intended to make him the executioner of Semiramis, who was to die of the dreadful malady before her term had expired.
Her photographic session over, he took her for a drink b the Deux Magots caf6 on Boulevard St Germain, just across the reet from the St Germain church.
Olivia, Sanct Germain sends greetings from Naissus, and thanks her for sending news of her travels.
Germain and Jemmy were both crying, Joan was shrieking her head off in the wood, and I dropped the bucket and crawled madly for shelter behind a yaupon bush.
King James having escaped to Saint Germains, King William reigned in his stead, to the welfare of his people and the disgust of Captain Barker and Captain Runacles, who from habit were unable to regard a Dutchman otherwise than as an enemy to be knocked on the head.
Sir Germain spread the certificate of seaworthiness on the chart table.
Germain, Karolyi picked up one of those bright-dressed, frowsy-haired women whom Asher had seen emerge, a little like vampires themselves, from the darkness as soon as the lamps were lit.
By his marriages Home far outwent such famous charlatans as Cagliostro, Mesmer, and the mysterious Saint Germain the deathless.
Germain, who cut diamonds from glass, and cook up in their laboratories the rarest jewels!
Germain gave himself out for a marvel and always aimed at exciting amazement, which he often succeeded in doing.