Germaine
//d͡ʒə(ɹ)ˈmeɪn// adj, name
adj, name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Obsolete form of germane. alt-of, obsolete
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname transferred from the given name, a variant of Germain.
- 2 A male given name from Latin, in modern use transferred back from the surname.
- 3 A female given name from Latin transferred from the surname or borrowed from modern French.
Example
More examples"Germaine was born in Marseille in 1900."
More for "germaine"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.