DUTCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dutch mean? 

• DUTCH (noun)
  The noun DUTCH has 2 senses:

1. the people of the Netherlands

2. the West Germanic language of the Netherlands

  Familiarity information: DUTCH used as a noun is rare.

• DUTCH (adjective)
  The adjective DUTCH has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture

  Familiarity information: DUTCH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUTCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The people of the Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dutch; Dutch people

Context example:

the Dutch are famous for their tulips

Hypernyms ("Dutch" is a kind of...):

country; land; nation (the people who live in a nation or country)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Dutch"):

Frisian (a native or inhabitant of Friesland or Frisia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The West Germanic language of the Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Dutch" is a kind of...):

West Germanic; West Germanic language (a branch of the Germanic languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Dutch"):

Flemish; Flemish dialect (one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch)

Afrikaans; Taal (an official language of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish)

• DUTCH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Dutch painters

Pertainym:

Netherlands (a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level)

 Context examples 

The emperor Charles V. made almost the same observation, when he said “that if he were to speak to his horse, it should be in High-Dutch.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Thus we can trace our lineage back to old Vernon Stone, who commanded a high-sterned, peak-nosed, fifty-gun ship against the Dutch.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly, began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Oh, this is a Havana, and these others are cigars of the peculiar sort which are imported by the Dutch from their East Indian colonies.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He got mad when I spoke of interest, an' he said damn the principal and if I mentioned it again, he'd punch my Dutch head off.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is a coolie disease from Sumatra—a thing that the Dutch know more about than we, though they have made little of it up to date.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A smaller sized lagomorph, the Dutch belted rabbit has black hindquarters, ears and black patches around the eyes while the feet, face, and front half of the body are white.

(Dutch Belted Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)

Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland, which so nearly cost us both our lives.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You may easily believe, said he, how great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of book-keeping; and, indeed, I believe I left him incredulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in The Vicar of Wakefield: ‘I have ten thousand florins a year without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.’ But his affection for me at length overcame his dislike of learning, and he has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In speaking, they pronounced through the nose and throat, and their language approaches nearest to the High-Dutch, or German, of any I know in Europe; but is much more graceful and significant.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)