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waard

Pronunciation: /ʋaːrt/

“waard” is a Dutch word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. an innkeeper, a publican
  2. a landlord, a host
  3. the master of the household; a husband,
  4. a protector, a lord
  5. a holm, holme, an area surrounded by rivers or a riverine floodplain
  6. a type of foreland, outside a local system of dikes
  7. a dwelling mound

adjective

  1. worth

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wāert, wēert, from Old Dutch *wert, from Proto-Germanic *werduz.

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