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Noun [Dutch]

IPA: /vrɑu̯/ Audio: Nl-vrouw.ogg Forms: vrouwen [plural], vrouwtje [diminutive, neuter], vrouwetje [diminutive, neuter], vrouwke [diminutive, neuter]
Rhymes: -ɑu̯ Etymology: From Middle Dutch vrouwe, from Old Dutch frouwa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|dum|vrouwe}} Middle Dutch vrouwe, {{inh|nl|odt|frouwa}} Old Dutch frouwa, {{inh|nl|gmw-pro|*frauwjā}} Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, {{inh|nl|gem-pro|*frawjǭ}} Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ Head templates: {{nl-noun|f|-en|+|dim2=-etje|dim3=-ke}} vrouw f (plural vrouwen, diminutive vrouwtje n or vrouwetje n or vrouwke n)
  1. woman Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-vrouw-nl-noun-zy5b~x7w
  2. wife Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Family members Synonyms: echtgenote
    Sense id: en-vrouw-nl-noun-nVKjyOTW Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 6 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: vroon
Derived forms: bijvrouw, brandweervrouw, huisvrouw, mevrouw, moeder de vrouw, politievrouw, powervrouw, raadsvrouw, topvrouw, tuinvrouw, vrouwelijk, vrouwlief, wereldvrouw, zeevrouw

Noun [English]

Forms: vrouws [plural], vrouwen [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch vrouw. Doublet of frau, frow, and vrou. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|nl|vrouw}} Dutch vrouw, {{doublet|en|frau|frow|vrou}} Doublet of frau, frow, and vrou Head templates: {{en-noun|+|vrouwen}} vrouw (plural vrouws or vrouwen)
  1. A Dutchwoman.
    Sense id: en-vrouw-en-noun-UAV7EMso Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 1 1 98 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 1 98

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "One by one those who had come to jeer slipped away, Pieter van der Byl murmuring incoherently of the hot sun and van der Heyden of the chilly evening, until finally Huysing turned abruptly from the pier and strode away, with a curt order to the waiting slaves to carry the vrouwen back to Zee Straat.",
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          "ref": "1968, R[alph] N[ixon] Currey, editor, Letters and Other Writings of a Natal Sheriff, Thomas Phipson 1815-76, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171:",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms borrowed from Dutch",
        "English terms derived from Dutch",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1786, “Account of the India Guide”, in Walker's Hibernian magazine:",
          "text": "So the Vrouws, in a minuet, solemnly prance\nLike a bear, at a fair, that is tutor'd to dance.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1840, The United States magazine and Democratic review: Volume 7, page 158:",
          "text": "Those whose rank excluded them from a participation in the town deliberations drew closer to their firesides; the vrouws, both old and young, edged their seats nigher to each other[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer [i.e., May King Van Rensselaer], The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta at Home and in Society, 1609-1760, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 131:",
          "text": "The Dutch vrouwen controlled their households as before, and governed their husbands with silken threads.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Dorothea Fairbridge, That Which Hath Been, South Africa: T. Maskew Miller, page 309:",
          "text": "One by one those who had come to jeer slipped away, Pieter van der Byl murmuring incoherently of the hot sun and van der Heyden of the chilly evening, until finally Huysing turned abruptly from the pier and strode away, with a curt order to the waiting slaves to carry the vrouwen back to Zee Straat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Continent, page 1381:",
          "text": "[…] thrifty Dutch burghers and vrouwen are busy about town and home; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, R[alph] N[ixon] Currey, editor, Letters and Other Writings of a Natal Sheriff, Thomas Phipson 1815-76, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171:",
          "text": "But really I have never heard that the up-country vrouwen were in such a violent hurry for baftas and punjums but what the ox-wagons and local stores there could keep them supplied.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Dutchwoman."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Dutchwoman",
          "Dutchwoman"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vrouw"
}

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