English word senses marked with place category "Netherlands"

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Parent categories: Europe, Earth, Eurasia, Nature
Subcategories: Amsterdam, Aruba, Curaçao, Drenthe, Netherlands, Flevoland, Netherlands, Friesland, Netherlands, Gelderland, Netherlands, Groningen, Netherlands, Limburg, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, North Brabant, Netherlands, North Holland, Netherlands, Overijssel, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Sint Maarten, South Holland, Netherlands, The Hague, Utrecht, Netherlands, Zeeland, Netherlands

Total 82 word senses

• Amsterdam (Proper name) A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands.
• Amsterdam (Proper name) A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:; A minor city in Bates County, Missouri.
• Amsterdam (Proper name) A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:; A town and city in Montgomery County, New York.
• Amsterdamer (Noun) Alternative spelling of Amsterdammer.
• Amsterdammer (Noun) A person from, or residing in, Amsterdam.
• Anglo-Dutch (Adjective) Of or pertaining to both England (the English) and the Netherlands (the Dutch).
• Aruba (Proper name) An island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea.
• Aruban (Noun) A person from Aruba or of Aruban descent.
• Aruban (Adjective) Of, from, or pertaining to Aruba, the Aruban people or the Aruban language.
• Austrian Netherlands (Proper name) The southern part of the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, & Luxembourg) during their period of Austrian rule (1714–1797), ending with their annexation by France during the Napoleonic Wars.
• Black Dutch (Noun) A European with dark hair, eyes, and skin, especially one from or claiming to be from Germany or the Netherlands, sometimes (derogatory, ethnic slur) with disparaging racial overtones.
• Caribbean Netherlands (Proper name) The three special municipalities of the Netherlands that are located in the Caribbean: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba.
• Curaçao (Proper name) An island in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
• Drenthe (Proper name) A province in the northeastern Netherlands with Assen as capital and Emmen as largest city.
• Dutch (Proper name) German; the main language of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany, Austria, Alsace, Luxembourg).
• Dutch Golden Age (Proper name) A period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, or Disaster Year), in which Dutch trade, science, and art and the Dutch military were among the most acclaimed in the world.
• Dutch courage (Noun) The courage or bravado induced by alcohol.
• Dutch courage (Noun) An alcoholic drink, taken to bolster one's courage.
• Dutchlike (Adjective) Like or resembling the Dutch, their language, their culture, or their nation; Netherlandish.
• Eighty Years' War (Proper name) The conflict in the Low Countries against Spanish rule, from 1568 to 1648, that gradually turned into a Dutch war of independence.
• February strike (Proper name) A general strike in the German-occupied Netherlands in 1941, during World War II.
• Flevoland (Proper name) A province of the Netherlands.
• Friesland (Proper name) A province of the Netherlands.
• Frieslander (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Friesland.
• Frisian (Proper name) A Germanic language group or language (see Usage notes), or a lect thereof, which descended from Old Frisian, with speakers in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.; The West Frisian (or Western Frisian) lect, spoken in the northern Netherlands.
• Frisian (Proper name) A Germanic language group or language (see Usage notes), or a lect thereof, which descended from Old Frisian, with speakers in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.; Saterland Frisian, the last surviving dialect of the East Frisian lect, spoken in Northern Germany close to the Dutch border.
• Frisian (Proper name) A Germanic language group or language (see Usage notes), or a lect thereof, which descended from Old Frisian, with speakers in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.; The North Frisian lect, spoken in northwestern Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.
• Frisian (Noun) A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is native to the region of Frisia (which is in the Netherlands, northern Germany, and southern Denmark).
• Frisian Islands (Proper name) An archipelago in the eastern North Sea, off the coasts of mainland Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.
• Gelderland (Proper name) A province of The Netherlands with Arnhem as capital.
• Groningen (Proper name) A province of the Netherlands.
• Haarlemer (Noun) A person from, or residing in, Haarlem.
• Heel (Proper name) A part of Maasgouw in the Netherlands
• Holland (Proper name) the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe).
• Hollander (Noun) Somebody from Holland.
• Hollandistan (Proper name) The Netherlands, viewed as an Islamic country because of immigration from Islamic countries.
• Hollandophile (Noun) A person who loves or admires the country, culture or people of the Netherlands.
• Kingdom of the Netherlands (Proper name) A monarchy consisting of the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten.
• Leidener (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Leiden, Netherlands.
• Leidenite (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Leiden, Netherlands.
• Limburg (Proper name) A province of the Netherlands.
• Limburg (Proper name) A province of Belgium.
• Limburger (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Limburg.
• Netherlands (Proper name) The main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located primarily in Western Europe bordering Germany and Belgium. Capital and largest city: Amsterdam.
• Netherlands (Proper name) A country in Western Europe, consisting of four constituent countries: the Netherlands per se, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
• Netherlands (Noun) Alternative letter-case form of netherlands.
• Netherlands Antilles (Proper name) A former autonomous country in the Caribbean, within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, composed of the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, dissolved in 2010.
• Netherlands New Guinea (Proper name) colonial territory of the Netherlands, present-day West Papua or Western New Guinea.
• North Brabant (Proper name) A province of the Netherlands.
• North Holland (Proper name) A province of the Netherlands.
• North Sea (Proper name) A marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Britain (in the west), Scandinavia (in the east) and Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France (in the south).
• Old Dutch (Proper name) A branch of Old Low Franconian, with a Frisian substrate, spoken and written during the Middle Ages (c. 9th to 12th century) in the Netherlands and the northern part of present-day Belgium, as well as in areas of northern France along the North Sea coast and adjoining Belgium. This language represents the first attested stage of the Dutch language and its dialects, being succeeded by Middle Dutch …
• Overijssel (Proper name) A province of the Netherlands, with Zwolle as capital city and Enschede the largest city.
• Prince's Flag (Proper name) A Dutch historical flag, originally used by the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years War, with three horizontal stripes: orange, white, and blue.
• Rotterdam (Proper name) A city in South Holland, Netherlands.
• Rotterdammer (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Rotterdam.
• Salian (Noun) A member of the Salii, the chief priests of Mars in ancient Rome.
• Salian (Adjective) Of or related to the Salii, the priests of Mars in ancient Rome.
• Salian (Noun) A person belonging to the German and Frankish tribes near the IJssel River in antiquity.
• Salian (Adjective) Of or related to the Salii, the Salian people.
• Salii (Noun) Synonym of Salians, the Salian people, especially in ancient Roman contexts.
• Sint Maarten (Proper name) A dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, located on the southern half of the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean Sea. Capital: Philipsburg.
• South Holland (Proper name) A province of the Netherlands.
• Spanish Netherlands (Proper name) The southern part of the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) during and after the Eighty Years' War, ruled by Spain and lasting from 1581 to 1713.
• The Hague (Proper name) A city and capital of South Holland, Netherlands; administrative capital of the Netherlands.
• Utrecht (Proper name) A province of the Netherlands.
• Utrechter (Noun) A person from, or residing in, Utrecht.
• West Frisian Islands (Proper name) A chain of islands in the North Sea, belonging to the Netherlands, part of the Frisian Islands.
• Zeeland (Proper name) A province of the Netherlands.
• Zeelander (Noun) An inhabitant of Zeeland.
• florin (Noun) A guilder (pre-Euro currency unit of the Netherlands).
• florin (Noun) The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ.
• florin (Noun) A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.
• florin (Noun) A pre-decimal Australian, and New Zealand, coin, worth 24 pence or a tenth of a pound.
• guilder (Noun) The former currency unit in the Netherlands, divided into 100 cents.
• guilder (Noun) The current currency unit in the islands in the former Netherlands Antilles, divided into 100 cents.
• mijl (Noun) A former Dutch unit of distance, usually equivalent to about 3 miles or 5–6 km.
• mud (Noun) A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
• reaal (Noun) An obsolete currency in Curaçao, equivalent to six stuivers.
• red, white and blue (Proper name) The flag of the Netherlands.
• thaler (Noun) A monetary unit used in a number of central and northern European countries, known locally as daalder (Netherlands), daler (Scandinavia), Taler, Thaler (Germany), etc.
• 112 (Proper name) The telephone number for emergency services on all GSM cell phones and in the EU, Russia, United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Ukraine, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome, the Seychelles, Uganda, East Timor, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, North Macedonia, Vatican City, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and S…

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