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New Amsterdam

New Amsterdam

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A 2018 American medical TV drama set in a public hospital
  • proper noun
  • /nuː ˈæmstəˌdæm/
: Nueva Ámsterdam
  • The hospital drama New Amsterdam explores the challenges faced by healthcare staff and patients.

Examples

  • I loved New Amsterdam!

    Blog text (27)

  • I enjoy watching New Amsterdam because of its engaging storylines and characters.

  • In New Amsterdam, the main character strives to improve patient care in a struggling public hospital.

Surface Forms

New Amsterdam main

Morphology

New + Amsterdam

As a proper-name title, knowing 'new' and 'Amsterdam' only suggests something recent or related to the city; it does not signal that this is the name of an American medical-drama TV series set in a hospital. Recognizing the MWE as a TV show requires specific cultural/encyclopedic knowledge rather than compositional decoding, so it is not derivable from the parts.

Etymology

New Amsterdam the TV series takes its title from the city's old name because the hospital in the show is called New Amsterdam, giving the story a link to the city's long past. That's why New Amsterdam here refers to the modern hospital drama set in the city now called 'New York'.