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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A former shallow inlet of the North Sea in northeast Netherlands. Originally a lake, it was joined with the North Sea by heavy flooding. A dike, completed in 1932, turned the southern section into the Ijsselmeer, which has largely been reclaimed for agriculture.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer
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The Enclosure Dike, which dams off the Zuider Zee, an inlet off the North Sea that has been turned into a massive freshwater lake that provides drinking water to Amsterdam and its environs, would need to be raised by 1.5 meters.
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He even said that the Amsterdam Canal connected the Zuider Zee with the North Sea. ''
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I set off, accordingly, the 7th of the Sixth Month, and travelled seven days through a desert country to Amsterdam, I went almost one half of the way by water, across the Zuider Zee from Zwolle to Amsterdam.
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Eventually he reached the marshy country of Frisia, crossed safely over the stretch of water, which in their tongue is called Aelmere, [i.e. the Zuider Zee] and made a survey of the lands round about, which up till then had borne no fruit.
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