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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Netherlands mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NETHERLANDS (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 "Netherlands"):

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 "Netherlands"):

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

Holonyms ("Netherlands" 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 ("Netherlands" 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)

 Context examples 

The syndrome is named after the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

(Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

In fact, some of its stars were first observed in the mid-1980s with the Infrared Astronomical Survey (IRAS), a joint mission between NASA, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)

A group of islands in the Caribbean, formerly an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and now a constituent of the Kingdom.

(Netherlands Antilles, NCI Thesaurus)

Three islands comprising the Caribbean portion of the Netherlands, north of Venezuela and east of Curacao.

(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus)

In 2008-2009 the PGR slid in Germany, France and in the Czech Republic but population growth continued in the Netherlands and Switzerland.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

A country in central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark.

(Germany, NCI Thesaurus)

An organization based in Leiden, Netherlands that coordinates the collection of HLA phenotypes from volunteer stem cell donors and cord blood donors, and is responsible for coordination of their distribution worldwide.

(Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide, NCI Thesaurus)

Umberto Olcese, a researcher from the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences of the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and the rest of the research team (which involved researchers from the European CANON project and that was led by Prof. Cyriel Pennartz, who participates in the European Flagship Human Brain Project) have discovered that not all forms of communication within the cerebral cortex are lost during non-REM sleep.

(Brain Is Still 'Connected' during Non-REM Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Two Austrian researchers, Dr. Philipp Schwabl from the Medical University of Vienna, and Dr. Bettina Liebmann, from the Environment Agency Austria, studied participants from countries including Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the UK and Austria.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

The researchers of Leiden University in the Netherlands focused on a type of molecule called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are flat molecules consisting of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern, surrounded by hydrogen.

(“Kitchen Smoke” Molecules in Nebula Offer Clues to the Building Blocks of Life, NASA)