Rotterdam
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- proper noun
- What is true for Berlin is true for most metropolitan centers such as Paris, Rotterdam, London, New York, and Istanbul.
- Erasmus University, Rotterdam
- Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Medical Center, Rotterdam
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Watch on YouTubeSo I tried to fly out from City Airport to Rotterdam.
- So I tried to fly out from City Airport to Rotterdam.
- Ever since the time changed, the two places are Kinderdyke and Rotterdam.
- And then I was met in Rotterdam, but it was a bunch of Moroccans.
- But I think what stands out most about Rotterdam was how important it was for us to really step over that, that line of winning something.
Examples
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My first exposure to a running cogeneration plant was a tour of a 300-megawatt facility in Rotterdam in 1988.
Academic text (2006) -
Lanting was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and now lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Fiction book (1993) -
If you accept, we'll take you with us to Rotterdam.
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We were to meet you in Rotterdam.
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Yesterday I was in Rotterdam.
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There are boats leaving for Rotterdam from Hope's Point.
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He's an exchange student from Rotterdam.
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The Rotterdam Study has been approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Erasmus Medical Center.
Academic text (2012) -
Please come and join us next week for Shira Moore, who's a professor at the Rotterdam School of Management.
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If you accept, we'll take you with us to Rotterdam.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rotterdam comes from the name of the small river Rotte plus dam, where dam means 'barrier' or 'to hold back water'. So Rotterdam means 'the dam on the Rotte', which fits a city that began by a river and grew into a great port.