Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Dutch and South African unit of land area equal to 2.1 acres.
Wiktionary
- n. a unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies, also used in Prussia, Denmark and Norway, equivalent to two acres.
Etymologies
- From German Morgen ("measure of land") (Wiktionary)
- Dutch, morning (referring to the amount of land that can be plowed in a morning), from Middle Dutch morghen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“All the poor Turk wants is assistance to get to Germany, but opportunities are scarce and Nelu can only reassure him with the one word he knows in German: "morgen" ( "tomorrow").”
“He repeated the word morgen, and we insisted on zimmer and bett.”
“Samstag morgen geht es wieder zurück in den Süden.”
“_ -- Most children, if not all, even when they have very early formed R correctly (involuntarily), introduce other sounds in place of it in speaking -- e. g., they say _moigjen_ for "morgen," _matta_ for "Martha," _annold_ for "Arnold," _jeiben_ for "reiben," _amum_ for”
“Zij vandaag tempel bewaak, zij morgen jaag op hinde of dorp bewaak.”
“Pakete morgen (Red Cross parcels tomorrow) - sometimes true”
“Musik-Tablett für die Mozarts von morgen - Ausgefallene Gadgets & Geschenkideen”
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“If you speak Dutch and would like to get hold of a copy, it should be available in all good bookshops and can also be ordered online – morgen in huis – here.”
“Fredag morgen, 6 februar, hadde Dagsnytt i NRK en nyhetssak om at kulturdepartementet setter av en million til opplysning om og forskning på problemskapende spillbruk.”
“Pat und ich treffen uns um morgen dann um halb drei, die Lesung beginnt um 18:30 im American Book Center, Spui 12.”
Lists
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mabble, mabsoot, macadamize, macarism, macarize, macaronic, macerate, macerator, machair, machairodont, machicolation, machinule and 898 more...
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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South African
kopje, voortrekker, baas, stoep, veldt, Vaal, kurveyor, lyer, mallemot, milkpox, namaqualite, overberg and 214 more...
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Words that make you go hmmmm...
Interesting words you probably won't hear in your day-to-day.
maxwell, mooncalf, quagga, glaikit, musquash, lingam, haruspex, qindarka, chthonic, ipomoea, azimuthal, valuta and 305 more...
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