Definitions for Dutch
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Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Dutch, Dutch people(noun)

   the people of the Netherlands

   "the Dutch are famous for their tulips"

2. Dutch(adj)

   the West Germanic language of the Netherlands

3. Dutch(adj)

   of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture

   "Dutch painting"; "Dutch painters"

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1. Dutch(Adjective)

   German.

   Etymology: Short for duchess

2. Dutch(Adjective)

   Pertaining to the Dutch, the Germans, and the Goths; Germanic, Teutonic.

   Etymology: Short for duchess

3. Dutch(Adjective)

   Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.

   Etymology: Short for duchess

4. Dutch(Adjective)

   In a shared manner; of a shared expense.

   Etymology: Short for duchess

5. Dutch(ProperNoun)

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

   Etymology: Short for duchess

6. Dutch(ProperNoun)

   The people from the Netherlands.

   Etymology: Short for duchess

7. Dutch(ProperNoun)

   The main language of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany, Austria, Alsace, Luxembourg)

   Etymology: Short for duchess

8. Dutch(ProperNoun)

   A German.

   Etymology: Short for duchess

9. dutch(Noun)

   wife

   Etymology: Short for duchess

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dutch(adj)

   pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants

   Etymology: [D. duitsch German; or G. deutsch, orig., popular, national, OD. dietsc, MHG. diutsch, tiutsch, OHG. diutisk, fr. diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS. ped, OS. thiod, thioda, Goth. piuda; cf. Lith. tauta land, OIr. tuath people, Oscan touto. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. Derrick, Teutonic.]

2. Dutch(noun)

   the people of Holland; Dutchmen

   Etymology: [D. duitsch German; or G. deutsch, orig., popular, national, OD. dietsc, MHG. diutsch, tiutsch, OHG. diutisk, fr. diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS. ped, OS. thiod, thioda, Goth. piuda; cf. Lith. tauta land, OIr. tuath people, Oscan touto. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. Derrick, Teutonic.]

3. Dutch(noun)

   the language spoken in Holland

   Etymology: [D. duitsch German; or G. deutsch, orig., popular, national, OD. dietsc, MHG. diutsch, tiutsch, OHG. diutisk, fr. diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS. ped, OS. thiod, thioda, Goth. piuda; cf. Lith. tauta land, OIr. tuath people, Oscan touto. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. Derrick, Teutonic.]

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1. Dutch

   Dutch is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Faiman and written by John Hughes. The original music score was composed by Alan Silvestri. The film stars Ethan Embry, Ed O'Neill and JoBeth Williams with a cameo appearance by golfer great Arnold Palmer. O' Neill and Embry would work together again over a decade later in the 2003 version of the series Dragnet. Ari Meyers and E.G. Daily co-starred.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dutch

   duch, adj. belonging to Holland or its people—in old writers rather applied to the Germans: heavy, clumsy, as in Dutch-built, -buttocked, &c.—n. Dutch′man, a native of Holland.—Dutch auction, courage, tiles (see Auction, Courage, Tile); Dutch carpet, a mixed material of cotton and wool for floor coverings; Dutch cheese, a small round cheese made on the Continent from skim-milk; Dutch clinkers, a hard brick for paving stables, &c.; Dutch clover, white clover; Dutch concert, a concert in which singers sing their various songs simultaneously, or each one sings a verse of any song he likes between bursts of some familiar chorus; Dutch drops, a balsam, or popular nostrum, of oil of turpentine, tincture of guaiacum, &c.; Dutch liquid, an oily substance obtained by mixing chlorine and olefiant gases—not miscible with water, readily dissolving in ether and alcohol, producing anæsthesia; Dutch metal, sometimes called Dutch gold or Dutch leaf, is an alloy of copper and zinc; Dutch oven (see Oven); Dutch pink (see Pink); Dutch rush, the scouring-rush; Dutch wife, an open frame of rattan or cane used in the Dutch Indies, to rest the limbs upon in bed.—Talk like a Dutch uncle, to rebuke with kindness. [Ger. deutsch, (lit.) belonging to the people—Old High Ger. diutisk, of which -isk = the Eng. suffix -ish, and diut = A.S. theod, Goth. thiuda, a nation. See Teutonic.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. dutch

   Language, or rather gibberish, which cannot be understood by a listener. (See DOUBLE DUTCH.)

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1. dutch

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Dutch' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4024

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Dutch' in Adjectives Frequency: #541

How to pronounce Dutch?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dutch in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dutch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Dutch in a Sentence

1. Mohsen Qamsari:

   One of the methods to ensure the country's oil sale is buying refineries in other countries but this has to be approved by the administration and the parliament, this is a method that countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, the U.S., China and leading oil giants like Royal Dutch Shell and BP have adopted and we should not stay behind them in this field.

2. Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem:

   I hope the Dutch can get over their chagrin and say: 'Yes, we are annoyed with Europe, we are annoyed with this Dutch government, but we will still support Ukraine.

3. Hans Gruenfeld:

   A tax does not stimulate companies to make unprofitable investments, the Dutch are trying to get companies to suddenly move faster than elsewhere in Europe. There's a large chance that will only shift production abroad, without reducing CO2 emissions on an international scale.

4. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte:

   The reality is that in the near future, a large part of the Dutch population will be infected with the virus, we can slow down the spread of the virus while building controlled group immunity.

5. Shigeaki Mori:

   What I did was just what the families had to do but they had no clue how. They say they really appreciated me contacting them. I was really glad to hear their words, i'm now researching about Dutch and British POWs, not just in Hiroshima but also Nagasaki.

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