Dutchland Definition
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(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.
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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, […]
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1886, in 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.
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(dated, rare, now often humorous) Holland; The Netherlands (the region inhabited by the Dutch).
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Origin of Dutchland
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From Middle English Duchelond (“Germany”), equivalent to Dutch + land. Cognate with West Frisian Dútslân (“Germany”), Dutch Duitsland (“Germany”), German Deutschland (“Germany”), Swedish Tyskland (“Germany”), Icelandic Þýskaland (“Germany”).
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