Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Netherlands on the Rhine-Meuse delta southeast of The Hague. Chartered in 1328, it was a major commercial power during the 1500s and 1600s and is today a thriving port accessible via canal to oceangoing vessels.
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- proper noun A city and port in The
Netherlands .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 2nd largest city in the Netherlands; located in the western Netherlands near the North Sea
Etymologies
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ROTTERDAM - A Rotterdam film festival is pressing ahead with the screening of six controversial films despite Chinese demands to withdraw them, organisers said.
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ROTTERDAM: Just hours before the Tour de France began in Rotterdam last ...
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ROTTERDAM (Reuters) - The third-stage cobbles were the talk of Rotterdam in the build-up to the but some competitors have warned Sunday's 223. 5-km first leg to Brussels may be even trickier.
The People's News Portal - Business, Money, Sport, Music, Forex, Auto 2010
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ROTTERDAM: Just hours before the Tour de France began in Rotterdam last night, the three-week race was rocked with more controversy involving seven-time champion Lance Armstrong
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ROTTERDAM - State Police have charged two men from Rotterdam with running an illegal sports gambling operation in this suburban town.
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River Diagnostics, in Rotterdam, is marketing a bacteria-strain analyzer to identify pathogens in real time and combat hospital-acquired infections.
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River Diagnostics, in Rotterdam, is marketing a bacteria-strain analyzer to identify pathogens in real time and combat hospital-acquired infections.
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River Diagnostics, in Rotterdam, is marketing a bacteria-strain analyzer to identify pathogens in real time and combat hospital-acquired infections.
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The GRL will be turning over control of the system to writers, protesters, artists and the citizens of Rotterdam from the 7th to the 10th of February, starting each night around 1600 hours at the KPN building in Rotterdam.
Boing Boing 2007
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In time, a city sprang up, which they called Rotterdam, or the dam where they rotted the flax.
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885
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