Dutchland

English Etymology From en enm Duchelond Germany, from en dum duutsche land or from late en gmh diutschland, both equivalent to en Dutch -land. Cognate with fy Dútslân Germany, nl Duitsland Germany, de Deutschland Germany, sv Tyskland Germany, is Þýskaland Germany. Pronunciation en /ˈdʌt͡ʃ.lənd/ Proper noun Pennsylvania Dutchland en 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. en 1902 John Fiske The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America 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. en obsolete Germany. en Germanland Germany 1688, George Etherege, in a letter (written from Regensburg (Ratisbon)) to Middleton, printed in 1982 in A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, and Other Stage Personnel in London, volume 8, page 170: a comedian no less handsome and no less kind in Dutchland than Mrs. Johnson was in England 1838, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, sixteenth edition (printed from the authorized copy of 1651), Democritus Junior to the Reader, page 51: I observe, in Turinge in Dutchland, en 1886 The Education Outlook 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. en dated rare now _ often _ humorous 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: Isle of Ameyland, Dutchland - German ocean - 7 30 Amsterdam, ditto, - Ditto - 3 00 en 1913 Hugh Johnston Travel films: being pen pictures of Europe The finest gallery of pictures in Dutchland is the Mesdag Museum, containing the art collections of the painter H. W. Mesdag. Derived terms en Low Dutchland en High Dutchland en Pennsylvania Dutchland See also en Germanland