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Polder vs Empolder - What's the difference?

polder | empolder |

As a noun polder

is (geography) an area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.

As a verb empolder is

to construct polders in order to drain land.

polder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geography) An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
  • *1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 43:
  • *:The patron saint of the Oude Kerk, Saint Nicolaas, the ‘water saint’, was also very popular, as he protected the sailors and those living on the polders from the dangers of the sea.

    • empolder

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To construct polders in order to drain land

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