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FRIESLAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Friesland mean?
• FRIESLAND (noun)
The noun FRIESLAND has 2 senses:
1. the western part of the ancient region of Frisia in northern Europe on the North Sea between the Scheldt river and the Weser river; part of this region is now a province in the Netherlands
2. one of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands
Familiarity information: FRIESLAND used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The western part of the ancient region of Frisia in northern Europe on the North Sea between the Scheldt river and the Weser river; part of this region is now a province in the Netherlands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Holonyms ("Friesland" is a part of...):
Frisia (an ancient region of northwestern Europe including the Frisian Islands)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Holonyms ("Friesland" is a part of...):
Holland; Kingdom of The Netherlands; Nederland; Netherlands; The Netherlands (a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level)
Context examples
The only other evidence which I can adduce is from the log of the SS. Friesland, a Dutch-American liner, which asserts that at nine next morning, Start Point being at the time ten miles upon their starboard quarter, they were passed by something between a flying goat and a monstrous bat, which was heading at a prodigious pace south and west.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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