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Dutchman

Dutchman

3.8
A man from the Netherlands
  • noun
  • /ˈdʌtʃmən/
translation icon : holandés
  • I was falling in love with a young Dutchman there on the right.

The first notorious short seller was a Dutchman named Isaac Lamarie.

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Examples

  • The Old Trafford club made Stam the most expensive Dutchman and defender in the history of the game, spending 10.6 million to bring him to Manchester.

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  • The first notorious short seller was a Dutchman named Isaac Lamarie.

  • There's a young Dutchman who's working on this.

  • Well, here's your belongings, dutchman, and every released prisoner is entitled to a stagecoach ticket good for 300 miles in any direction plus a $5 gold piece.

  • He is a proud Dutchman who loves sharing his culture with others.

  • My neighbor, a friendly Dutchman, always invites us over for dinner.

  • The Dutchman explained the history of his homeland during the tour.

Synonyms

Hollander
vsDutchman
5 7.5

A person from Holland in the Netherlands

refers to someone from the whole country rather than one region
Netherlandish
vsDutchman
1 7.1

A person from the Netherlands

refers specifically to a male person
Netherlander
vsDutchman
6.1

A person from the Netherlands

refers specifically to a male person

Compounds

Flying Dutchman
  • Literature
3 9.9

A ghost ship said to sail the seas forever and bring bad luck

Surface Forms

Dutchman singular
Dutchmen plural

Morphology

Dutchman = Dutch + man (transparent) = Dutch + man

A straightforward compound of 'Dutch' + 'man' meaning a male person from the Netherlands; the components directly predict the meaning.

Etymology

Dutchman means a man from the Netherlands and comes from Dutch, a word that long ago meant 'the people' or 'of the country' in old German languages and is like the modern German word Deutsch. So, a Dutchman is simply a man of the Dutch people.