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PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pennsylvania Dutch mean? 

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH (noun)
  The noun PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH has 1 sense:

1. a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Marylandplay

  Familiarity information: PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

German; German language; High German (the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic)


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