Definitions for Dutch

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Dutch Dutch

Spelling: [duhch]

IPA: /dʌtʃ/

Dutch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Dutch (cdhtu).

Definitions for Dutch

noun

1. the people of the Netherlands and their immediate descendants elsewhere, collectively.
2. Pennsylvania Dutch.
3. Also called Netherlandic. the Germanic language of the Netherlands and northern Belgium. Abbreviation: D. Compare Flemish.
4. Obsolete. the German language.

Idioms

1. go Dutch, Sometimes Offensive. to have each person pay his or her own expenses: Also, go dutch.
2. in Dutch, Sometimes Offensive. in trouble or disfavor (with someone):

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
2. pertaining to or designating the style of painting and subject matter developed in the Netherlands during the 17th century, chiefly characterized by the use of chiaroscuro, muted tones, naturalistic colors or forms, and of genre, landscape, or still-life subjects drawn from contemporary urban and rural life.
3. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
4. Archaic. German; Teutonic.

Origin of Dutch

1350-1400; Middle English Duch Middle Dutch duutsch Dutch, German(ic); cognate with Old High German diutisc popular (language) (as opposed to learned Latin), translation of Latin (lingua) vul

Examples for Dutch

I remember that I greatly vaunted the good qualities of the Dutch that night.

The men-of-war of the Dutch and the French, rendezvoused at Mahon, as well as ourselves.

Perhaps that is why it flowed so calmly in all our Dutch veins while we said good-by.

Everything was on a colossal scale, and trim as a Dutch interior.

Dutch and German motorcycle gangs got a lot of publicity saying they were fighting against the so-called Islamic State in Syria.

This is the Dutch conception of a welcome after five months!

Between June and October 1943, 4,283 British, 1,303 Dutch, 1,630 Australian, and 88 American soldiers died.

Indeed, a common racial slur in Dutch is, precisely, roetmop, which means soot mop.

“We are not proponents of Dutch citizens getting involved in the struggle,” says Bahoz Derik of the Dutch Kurdish FedKom network.

“Because Dutch people have these childhood memories, they cannot see Black Piet for what it is,” says Bergman.