city in W Netherlands: seat of the government (cf. Amsterdam); capital of South Holland province: Du. name 's Gravenhage
Hague
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- A surname.
- A town in New York
- A city in North Dakota
- A town in Saskatchewan
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Sentence Examples
- At the Hague Conference of 1899 the position of irregular combatants was one of the subjects dealt with, and the rules there adopted were reaffirmed at the Conference of 1907.
- In 1847 he was appointed governor at the Hague, and commandant in South Holland.
- (1792-1849), king of the Netherlands, son of William I., was born at the Hague on the 6th of December 1792.
- Several letters between 1643 and 1649 are addressed to the princess Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the ejected elector palatine, who lived at The Hague, where her mother maintained the semblance of a royal court.
- Of the Hague, with which it is also connected by steam-tramway.
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