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.
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Synonyms:
pronoun
(collective) The people of the Netherlands.
The Dutch will vote on the matter next month.
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The main language of the Netherlands and Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium).

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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

Dutch Sentence Examples

  • On the breaking out of the Dutch War in 1664 he was made treasurer of the prizes, being accountable to the king alone for all sums received or spent.

  • It is a quiet, typically Dutch town, with its old brick houses and tree-bordered canals.

  • In the youthful Dutch universities the effect of the essays was greater.

  • Keene was once called The Elm City before Dutch elm disease destroyed the massive trees that surrounded the grassy area at the head of the square.

  • Two Dutch friends, Constantijn Huygens (von Zuylichem), father of the more celebrated Huygens, and Hoogheland, figure amongst the correspondents, not to mention various savants, professors and churchmen (particularly Jesuits).

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Words Starting With

DDUDUT

Words Ending With

HCHTCH

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