- of or connected with the Netherlands, its people or its language see also double DutchOxford Collocations DictionaryDutch is used with these nouns:
- cheese
- door
Word Originfrom Middle Dutch dutsch ‘Dutch, Netherlandish, German’: the English word originally denoted speakers of both High and Low German, but became more specific after the United Provinces adopted the Low German of Holland as the national language on independence in 1579.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See Dutch in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo Dutch (with somebody)
- to share the cost of something with somebody
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