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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A native or an inhabitant of the Netherlands or Holland, a kingdom of Europe situated near the North Sea, west of Germany and north of Belgium; an inhabitant of the Netherlands in an extended sense, including, besides the present kingdom, the former Spanish and Austrian Netherlands (now the kingdom of Belgium).

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  • noun someone from the Netherlands

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  • noun a native or inhabitant of Holland

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Examples

  • I turned and found the so-called Netherlander, Van Weede, at my side, along with his two companions.

    QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

  • When he left the gloomy building, he was animated with the joyous conviction that he had not toiled in vain, and that the Netherlander was a lost man.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • I grew in Dutch Reformed western Michigan with a propitious Netherlander name.

    Jeff DeGraff: The New Mass As New Coke Jeff DeGraff 2012

  • I grew in Dutch Reformed western Michigan with a propitious Netherlander name.

    Jeff DeGraff: The New Mass As New Coke Jeff DeGraff 2012

  • Moreover, the Pashley is certainly more of a ‘luxury item’, it is not made to withstand the insane abuses a Netherlander hurls at their bikes.

    JORG & OLIF: Dutch City Bikes | Inhabitat 2006

  • When a Netherlander tells you how much they appreciate Canadians for liberating Holland, tell them that their gratitude is misplaced.

    Archive 2008-06-01 the rev. paperboy 2008

  • The chief judge was a rotund, silver-haired Netherlander named Alphons Orie, who had served on the Dutch Supreme Court.

    House of War Langewiesche, William 2008

  • And if she had still carried a Kenyan passport that would have meant a clean sweep in the teams, but she's a Netherlander now.

    Archive 2007-03-18 2007

  • The course was taught by a Netherlander, Oscar Lansen who is now at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte.

    Ode to the Netherlands vuboq 2006

  • Van Wijk might know: Although regal and Netherlander, his firm is now a subsidiary of Jean-Cyril Spinetta's Air France-KLM.

    KLM's Van Wijk Sees Delta-Northwest Merger 2006

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