Holland Meaning
/ˈhɒ.lənd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.
nameA historical province of the Netherlands.
Sentence Examples
In this paper, I compare the folklores of Germany and Holland.
Go where you will in Holland, you will see windmills.
Holland is part of the Netherlands.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She traveled to ____ to see the colorful tulip fields in spring.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
____ is famous for its beautiful fields of tulips, its historic windmills, and its wooden clogs.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hultą Proto-West Germanic *holt Old Dutch holt Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Frankish *land Old Dutch lant Old Dutch holt lantder. English Holland From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”). A popular but false etymology holds that it is derived from hol land (“hollow land”), inspired by the low-lying geography of both the Dutch and the English region (Holland, Lincolnshire).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France wore shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement."
— 1768, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 23:
"His apartments were blank. Brown hollands covered his library-table"
— 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She traveled to ____ to see the colorful tulip fields in spring.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
____ is famous for its beautiful fields of tulips, its historic windmills, and its wooden clogs.