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france | dutch |

As a proper noun france

is france.

As a noun dutch is

(slang) wife.

france

English

(wikipedia France)

Alternative forms

* Fraunce (obsolete)

Proper noun

(Frances)
  • A country in Western Europe which borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain, is a member state of the European Union and has a population of 62 million inhabitants. Official name: French Republic ().
  • * 1998 , Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore (ISBN 0791437108), page 2:
    • Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances' by placing them in sequence: "diverse '''France''' gave way over time as modern centralized ' France gathered force."
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France' that he was best-placed to lead ' France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.}}
    • , a French poet, journalist, and novelist

    Related terms

    * Franco- * francophobe * Francophone * Frankland * French * Frenchman * New France * Tour de France

    See also

    * *

    References

    Statistics

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    dutch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (abbreviation):

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) German.
  • (archaic) Pertaining to the Dutch, the Germans, and the Goths; Germanic, Teutonic.
  • Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.
  • .
  • In a shared manner; of a shared expense.
    • Usage notes
    Dutch'' should not be used in diplomatic circles (i. e. to describe embassies, ambassadors, consulates and consuls of the Netherlands). The correct term is ''Netherlands .

    Proper noun

    (wikipedia Dutch) (en proper noun)
  • The main language of the Netherlands and Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium).
  • (obsolete) German; the main language of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany, Austria, Alsace, Luxembourg).
  • (collective) The people of the Netherlands.
    • the Dutch will vote on the matter next month

    Related terms

    (terms related to "Dutch") * double Dutch * Dutch act * Dutch angle * Dutch auction * Dutch-bottomed * Dutch cap * Dutch cheese * Dutch cleanser * Dutch clover * Dutch comfort * Dutch concert * Dutch corner * Dutch courage * Dutch crossing * Dutch door * Dutchie, Dutchy * Dutch elm disease * Dutch gold * Dutch hand * Dutch hoe * Dutchland * Dutch Low Saxon * Dutch metal * Dutch oven * Dutch pink * Dutch reckoning * Dutch tilt * Dutch treat * Dutch uncle * go Dutch * in Dutch * Pennsylvania Dutch * Deutsch * Teuton

    See also

    * (nl) * Language list

    External links

    * Dutch - English Dictionary]: from [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200902/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition. *