Hollander
English
Etymology
Probably Holland + -er; compare the German Holländer.
Noun
Hollander (plural Hollanders)
- Somebody from Holland.
- A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water.
- Synonym: Dutch clinker
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wagner to this entry?)
Derived terms
Proper noun
Hollander (plural Hollanders)
- A surname
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Hollander”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch hollander. Equivalent to Holland + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
Hollander m (plural Hollanders)
- Hollander, person from Holland (e.g. North Holland or South Holland) or of Hollandic descent.
- (Belgium) Dutchman (person from the Netherlands)
Usage notes
Unlike Holland, which is sometimes used for the Netherlands as a whole in patriotic contexts, Dutch people are not very likely to use Hollander to refer to any Dutch person.
Derived terms
- English terms suffixed with -er (inhabitant)
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Requests for quotations/Wagner
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms suffixed with -er
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Belgian Dutch