Dutch

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to the Netherlands, its people, culture, or language

   The gallery specializes in Dutch paintings from the seventeenth century.

2. 2
   noun

   the West Germanic language spoken chiefly in the Netherlands and northern Belgium

   She learned Dutch before moving to Utrecht.

3. 3
   noun

   the people of the Netherlands considered collectively

   The Dutch have a long history of managing land below sea level.

From Middle English Duch or Dutch, through Middle Dutch duutsch, from a West Germanic word meaning "of the people". English once used it broadly for Germanic peoples and languages; by the seventeenth century it had narrowed mainly to the Netherlands and its inhabitants.

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