Meanings
- Catskill Creek.
- A town in Greene County, New York, United States.
- A village, the county seat of Greene County, New York, located within the town.
- not comparableOf or relating to the Catskill Mountains.
Further losses in such raids would spur Catskill people to call for revenge.
2012, Tom Arne Midtrød, The Memory of All Ancient Customs, page 1511 more example
All three buildings were connected by an indoor bridge so that students never had to go outside, something that was helpful during the harsh Catskill winters.
2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 116
Origin
- DutchKats Kill
- EnglishCatskill
Borrowed from Dutch Kats Kill (literally “Cat('s) Creek”), from kat (“cat”) + -s- (linking morpheme) + kil (“creek, kill”); the broader Catskill region was called Landt van Kats Kill (“Land of Cat Creek”), named after the Catskill. The variants Kaatskill and Kaaterskill may be later pseudo-Dutchisms.
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Catskill. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Catskill
“Catskill.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Catskill. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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