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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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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2. 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?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say Dutch in sign language?

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. Giannis Zouganelis:

   People need to feel human, if Athens doesn't put on many plays, who would? The Dutch? They produce tulips, cows. What we produce is theater.

2. Zhou Ye:

   It has made going Dutch less hassle and so much more fun, young people think splitting bills this way is fun, and older ones may find it fashionable to do so.

3. Matteo Salvini:

   Dear German government, I'm not reopening the ports ... if anything we're going to put ... (the migrants) in a car and take them to the German embassy, if someone is used to considering Italy a dumping site for all the problems Europe pretends not to see, that's over. And this applies to the French and the Dutch.

4. Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate:

   When you speak with a Dutch Person about the glass being half-empty or half-full, she/he will immediately suggest that she/he will "go dutch" with you, i.e., both will pay equally and share the glass with its conent equally; provided she/he gets the bottom half.

5. Katie Couric:

   It’s probably not a news flash to tell you the Dutch are really, really good at speed skating. … ‘Why are they so good?’ you may be asking yourself, because skating is an important mode of transportation in a city like Amsterdam.

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