Dutch Definition

dŭch
adjective
Of the Netherlands or its people, language, or culture.
Webster's New World
Of the Pennsylvania Dutch or their language or culture.
Webster's New World
German.
American Heritage
Of or relating to any of the Germanic peoples or languages.
American Heritage
Of or relating to the Pennsylvania Dutch.
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noun
The people of the Netherlands.
American Heritage
A Germanic people.
American Heritage
The West Germanic language spoken in the Netherlands.
Webster's New World
The Pennsylvania Dutch.
American Heritage
One or more of the West Germanic languages of Germany, Switzerland, and the Low Countries.
American Heritage
pronoun
(collective) The people of the Netherlands.
The Dutch will vote on the matter next month.
Wiktionary

The main language of the Netherlands and Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium).

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Other Word Forms of Dutch

Noun

Singular:
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Plural:
dutches

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Origin of Dutch

  • From Middle English Duch (“German, Low Countryman”), from Middle Dutch dūtsch, duutsc (modern Duits (“German”)), northern variant of dietsc (compare modern Diets (“Dutch language”)), from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (compare German Deutsch (“German”), Old English þēodisc (“of the people”)), from Proto-Germanic *þeudō ‘people’, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. See also Derrick, Teuton, Teutonic.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle Dutch duutsc is the result of i-mutation (umlaut) typical of central dialects (Brabantine) while dietsc shows the merger of iu with io and weakening to [iə] typical of coastal dialects (Flemish). This led to doublets which split in meaning during the Renaissance.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English Duch German, Dutch from Middle Dutch Dūtsch teutā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Short for duchess

    From Wiktionary

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