App
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Proper noun edit
App (plural Apps)
- A surname from German.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, App is the 35345th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 637 individuals. App is most common among White (92.94%) individuals.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
App pl (plural only)
- Abbreviation of appeals.
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
App (plural Apps)
- (nonstandard, common in China) Alternative form of app
- (in street addresses) Abbreviation of approach.
- 10 Station App
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “App”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47.
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English app.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
App f (genitive App, plural Apps)
- (Internet, mobile) app
- Synonym: Applikation f
Usage notes edit
- Some reference works list alternative grammatical gender forms (das App n, der App m); in practice the word is treated almost exclusively as feminine, most likely because Applikation is also feminine.
Declension edit
Declension of App [feminine]
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- Appentwicklerin f (App + Entwicklerin or rather Appentwickler + -in)
Further reading edit
- “App” in Duden online
- “App” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “App”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–