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Dutch

Dutch

185 2.0
From the Netherlands or about its people and culture
  • adjective
  • /dʌtʃ/
: neerlandés
  • She enjoys cooking traditional Dutch recipes like pancakes and cheese dishes.
  • a Dutch company
  • the Dutch government
  • seventeenth-century Dutch art

I don't know, meets Swedish people, Dutch people, I don't know.

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Examples

  • We could, we could adapt to the Dutch model fairly easily.

  • Over here, we have several family portraits painted by the Dutch master Van Dyck.

  • And but in the Dutch version, he names them.

  • So there is a big festival every year and in Dutch you say Dutch, Dutch.

  • Because things are changing at the Dutch flower market.

  • Next, similarly on the left, is a plan by a Dutch landscape architect.

  • He's got a Dutch Cup title, he's got a Dutch Super Cup as well.

  • The sample was therefore regarded as representative of the Dutch indigenous adolescent population of the early 1990s.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The second tradition, Dutch Calvinism, has also reflected on issues of church, state, and secularization.

    Academic text (2008)
  • And these, these are very Dutch Stroop, Stroop waffles.

Synonyms

Netherlandish
vsDutch
1 7.3

About the Netherlands and its people, language, or art

is a broader neutral term for the country, its people, and culture
dutchy
vsDutch
  • Informal
1 8.2

Like something from the Netherlands, for example food or traditions

names a neutral relation to the country, its people, or culture

Idioms

in Dutch
  • Archaic
1 9.9

In trouble with someone in charge

double Dutch
  • Archaic
1 9.6

Speech or writing that is hard to understand and sounds like nonsense

all double Dutch
  • Informal
9.9

Language you cannot understand at all

Compounds

7 4.1

A heavy pot with a tight lid used for slow cooking

6 6.9

A game where two ropes turn and players jump between them

A form of German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland, often by Amish families

3 2.1

People from the Netherlands who share the same language and culture

Dutch courage
  • Informal
2 8.4

Temporary confidence people feel after drinking alcohol

1 7.0

A tree from two kinds of elm grown for shade in parks and gardens

Dutch uncle
  • Informal
1 8.8

A person who gives honest, firm advice to help you

Dutch oven
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A prank in which someone traps a person under covers and passes gas

Dutch elm disease
  • Specialized
1 4.5

A sickness of elm trees caused by a fungus that makes leaves wilt and trees die

A language spoken in the Netherlands, parts of Belgium, and Suriname

1 5.6

A door split across the middle so the top or bottom half opens separately

Dutch auction
  • Specialized
1 7.7

A way of selling where the price goes down until a buyer accepts

1 6.5

A way of speaking English that sounds like people from the Netherlands

Dutch-processed cocoa
  • Specialized
1 3.9

Cocoa powder treated with a chemical to reduce acidity, give a milder taste, and make it darker

1 5.9

An occasion when each person pays for their own meal or drink

Dutch Guiana
  • Literature
1 7.6

Former name for the country now called Suriname in northeastern South America when it was controlled by the Netherlands

1 6.7

A spring flower with blue or purple petals people grow in gardens and use in bouquets

1 6.0

A low plant with three small leaves and white flowers that spreads across the ground

Black Dutch
  • Archaic
1 9.9

An old American term for people with mixed African, Native American, and European family background

Dutch elm fungus
  • Specialized
1 6.5

A fungus that causes a disease that kills elm trees

1 7.5

A garden tool with a flat blade you push to cut weeds just below the soil

Dutch-elm beetle
  • Specialized
1 8.6

An insect that spreads a fungus that kills elm trees

A tropical bean plant with red flowers that grows black beans with white spots you can eat

Former money used in the Netherlands worth 100 cents, replaced by the euro in 2002

Money used in the Netherlands before the euro

How Dutch

Dutch
185 2.0
dutchy
  • Informal
1 8.2

Surface Forms

Dutch positive

Etymology

Dutch comes from an old German word theudisk that meant 'of the people', and it is the same root as German Deutsch. So Dutch now describes things or people from the Netherlands.