HOLLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Holland mean? 

• HOLLAND (noun)
  The noun HOLLAND has 1 sense:

1. a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level

  Familiarity information: HOLLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Holland; Kingdom of The Netherlands; Nederland; Netherlands; The Netherlands

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Holland"):

Nijmegen (an industrial city in the eastern Netherlands)

IJsselmeer (a shallow lake in northwestern Netherlands created in 1932 by building a dam across the entrance to the Zuider Zee)

IJssel; IJssel river (a river in the central Netherlands flowing north to the IJsselmeer)

Hoek van Holland; Hook of Holland (a cape on the southwestern coast of the Netherlands near Rotterdam)

Frisian Islands (a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland)

Friesland (one of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands)

Utrecht (a city in the central Netherlands)

Leiden; Leyden (a city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620)

Rotterdam (the 2nd largest city in the Netherlands; located in the western Netherlands near the North Sea)

Eindhoven (city in southeastern Netherlands noted for electrical industry)

's Gravenhage; Den Haag; The Hague (the site of the royal residence and the de facto capital in the western part of the Netherlands; seat of the International Court of Justice)

Arnhem (a city in the central Netherlands on the lower Rhine River; site of a battle in 1944 during World War II)

Apeldoorn (a city of east central Netherlands; a popular tourist center and site of the summer residence of the Dutch royal family)

Amsterdam; capital of The Netherlands; Dutch capital (an industrial center and the nominal capital of the Netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum)

Meuse; Meuse River (a European river; flows into the North Sea)

Rhein; Rhine; Rhine River (a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea)

Meronyms (members of "Holland"):

Dutchman; Hollander; Netherlander (a native or inhabitant of Holland)

Holonyms ("Holland" is a part of...):

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Holonyms ("Holland" is a member of...):

Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)

NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)

Benelux (a customs union comprising Belgium and Netherlands and Luxembourg)

Derivation:

Hollander (a native or inhabitant of Holland)

 Context examples 

It’s me for little Holland, and the sooner the better.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Folk were weary of the war, for we had been at it for eight years, taking Holland, and Spain, and France each in turn and all together.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knew many persons in Holland.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Dr. Van Helsing must be a good man as well as a clever one if he is Arthur's friend and Dr. Seward's, and if they brought him all the way from Holland to look after Lucy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beyond Cologne we descended to the plains of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way, for the wind was contrary and the stream of the river was too gentle to aid us.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had lived long in Holland, pursuing my studies at Leyden, and I spoke Dutch well.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

By all means go to Holland, and you can get a boat from Rotterdam to New York.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Rochester drew back the thick curtain, drew up the holland blind, let in all the daylight he could; and I was surprised and cheered to see how far dawn was advanced: what rosy streaks were beginning to brighten the east. Then he approached Mason, whom the surgeon was already handling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)