high german

Questions about high german

What does high german mean?

high german means "the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic".

What is another word for high german?

Close synonyms include German, German language. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high german a common word?

high german is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.