DUTCHMAN

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• DUTCHMAN (noun)
  The noun DUTCHMAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Holland

  Familiarity information: DUTCHMAN used as a noun is very rare.

• DUTCHMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Holland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dutchman; Hollander; Netherlander

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

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Dutchman" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

Martin was danced until his teeth rattled and his head ached, and he marvelled that the Dutchman was so strong.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He’ll do us all proud, sir, or I’m a Dutchman!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You and the Dutchman will tell me what to do, and I'll do it."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Here I have this confounded son of a Dutchman sitting in my own house drinking of my own rum!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I got down into the canoe, while the Dutchman, standing upon the deck, loaded me with all the curses and injurious terms his language could afford.

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

"He licked the Flyin' Dutchman, an' you know him," Jimmy went on expostulating.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Even the Jacks aboard our ships fought with a viciousness against a French vessel which they would never show to Dane, Dutchman, or Spaniard.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I made the captain a very low bow, and then, turning to the Dutchman, said, “I was sorry to find more mercy in a heathen, than in a brother christian.”

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

The Dutchman—and a fine old fellow he is; I can see that—said, that time you two came into the room, that you must have another transfusion of blood, and that both you and he were exhausted.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He sought it desperately, for ages, and was still searching when the manager of the hotel entered, the fat Dutchman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)