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PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pennsylvania Dutch mean?
• PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH (noun)
The noun PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH has 1 sense:
1. a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland
Familiarity information: PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Pennsylvania Dutch" is a kind of...):
German; German language; High German (the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic)
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