Holland vs Dutchland - What's the difference?
holland | dutchland |
The Netherlands.
A region of the Netherlands formed by two provinces: North Holland'' and ''South Holland .
A historical region of Lincolnshire in England (also called Parts of Holland ).
(dated) The region of Continental Europe populated by speakers of Low, Middle and High West Germanic languages, roughly corresponding to the Netherlands, Flanders, Germany, Austria, and parts of Switzerland.
*1902 , John Fiske, The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America :
(obsolete) Germany.
* 1688', George Etherege, in a letter (written from ) to Middleton, printed in '''1982 in ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, and Other Stage Personnel in London , volume 8, page 170:
* 1838 , , The Anatomy of Melancholy'', sixteenth edition (printed from the authorized copy of 1651), ''Democritus Junior to the Reader , page 51:
*1886 , in The Education Outlook :
Holland; The Netherlands (the region inhabited by the Dutch).
* 1822-26 , Ebenezer Sibly, An Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology , part 3, page 995:
*1905 , in the Publications of the Huguenot Society of London :
*1913 , Hugh Johnston, Travel films: being pen pictures of Europe :
As a noun holland
is a coarse woollen cloth used in furnishing.As a proper noun dutchland is
(dated) the region of continental europe populated by speakers of low, middle and high west germanic languages, roughly corresponding to the netherlands, flanders, germany, austria, and parts of switzerland.holland
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(en proper noun)Usage notes
* Outside the Netherlands, and even sometimes in the Netherlands itself, the term “Holland” often refers to the Netherlands as a whole. This use can sometimes be considered insensitive, especially by residents of the other provinces of the Netherlands. It is somewhat similar to referring to the United Kingdom as "England".dutchland
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(en proper noun)- The dwellers in those mountain regions, along with the greater part of the lowland population, we call by a Latin name "Germans," as if we had first learned about them by reading Cæsar's commentaries. One can see how the popular name "Dutchland " would naturally remain associated especially with that bit of shore with which our forefathers had most to do.
- I observe, in Turinge in Dutchland ,
- Before a few weeks ago I always held England for the greateste land of the whole world after Dutchland , and the Englanders for the best-lighted folk.
- Isle of Ameyland, Dutchland German ocean - 7 30
- Amsterdam, ditto, - Ditto - 3 00
- Marie Stope, the wiff of the said Arnold, borne in Dutchland , .... age of 1 yeares.
- The finest gallery of pictures in Dutchland is the Mesdag Museum, containing the art collections of the painter H. W. Mesdag.