FRIESLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Friesland mean? 

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

1. the western part of the ancient region of Frisia in northern Europe on the North Sea between the Scheldt river and the Weser river; part of this region is now a province in the Netherlands

2. one of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands

  Familiarity information: FRIESLAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRIESLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The western part of the ancient region of Frisia in northern Europe on the North Sea between the Scheldt river and the Weser river; part of this region is now a province in the Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Friesland" is a part of...):

Frisia (an ancient region of northwestern Europe including the Frisian Islands)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Holonyms ("Friesland" is a part 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 

The only other evidence which I can adduce is from the log of the SS. Friesland, a Dutch-American liner, which asserts that at nine next morning, Start Point being at the time ten miles upon their starboard quarter, they were passed by something between a flying goat and a monstrous bat, which was heading at a prodigious pace south and west.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)