AMSTERDAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amsterdam mean? 

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

1. an industrial center and the nominal capital of the Netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMSTERDAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An industrial center and the nominal capital of the Netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Amsterdam; capital of The Netherlands; Dutch capital

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Amsterdam" 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 

To-night I leave for Amsterdam, but shall return to-morrow night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons.

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

Research criteria established for defining Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC) families as established by the International Collaborative Group (ICG) meeting in Amsterdam in 1990: 1.

(Amsterdam Criteria, NCI Thesaurus)

Umberto Olcese, a researcher from the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences of the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and the rest of the research team (which involved researchers from the European CANON project and that was led by Prof. Cyriel Pennartz, who participates in the European Flagship Human Brain Project) have discovered that not all forms of communication within the cerebral cortex are lost during non-REM sleep.

(Brain Is Still 'Connected' during Non-REM Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

From Amsterdam I soon after set sail for England, in a small vessel belonging to that city.

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

Van Helsing reverently lifted his hat as he answered:—"The Host. I brought it from Amsterdam. I have an Indulgence."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On the 10th of April, 1710, we arrived safe at Amsterdam, having lost only three men by sickness in the voyage, and a fourth, who fell from the foremast into the sea, not far from the coast of Guinea.

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

Dr. Vincent, of the North Hospital, where the papers say the child is, is friend of mine, and I think of yours since you were in class at Amsterdam.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To-night Dr. Van Helsing is going away, as he has to be for a day in Amsterdam.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Professor stood up. "I must go back to Amsterdam to-night," he said.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)