NEW NETHERLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Netherland mean? 

• NEW NETHERLAND (noun)
  The noun NEW NETHERLAND has 1 sense:

1. a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam; annexed by the English in 1664

  Familiarity information: NEW NETHERLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW NETHERLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam; annexed by the English in 1664

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

colony; dependency (a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country)

Holonyms ("New Netherland" is a part of...):

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)