Dictionaries › English

Dutch

Pronunciation: /dʌt͡ʃ/

The English word “Dutch” has 12 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.
  2. Pertaining to Germanic-speaking peoples on the European continent, chiefly the Germans (especially established German-speaking communities in parts of the USA), or the Dutch; Teutonic; Germanic.
  3. Substitute, inferior, ersatz.
  4. Thrifty.
  5. Pertaining to Afrikaner culture (Cape Dutch).

proper noun

  1. The main language of the Netherlands, Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium) and Suriname; Netherlandic.
  2. German; the main language of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany, Austria, Alsace, Luxembourg).

noun

  1. The people of the Netherlands, or one of certain ethnic groups descending from the people of the Netherlands.
  2. Afrikaner people (Cape Dutch).
  3. The Pennsylvania Dutch people.
  4. Synonym of double Dutch (“incomprehensible language or speech”).

verb

  1. To treat cocoa beans or powder with an alkali solution to darken the color and lessen the bitterness of the flavor.

Etymology

PIE word *tewtéh₂ From Middle English Duch (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Middle Low German dütsch, düdesch (“German, Low German, Dutch”) and Middle Dutch dūtsch, dūtsc (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of one’s people”), derived from *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Doublet of Deutsch and Doitsu. Compare…

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “Dutch” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.