Meanings
- datedThe 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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The dwellers in those mountain regions, along with the greater part of the lowland population, we call by a Latin name "Germans," as if we had first learned about them by reading Cæsar's commentaries. One can see how the popular name "Dutchland" would naturally remain associated especially with that bit of shore with which our forefathers had most to do.
1902, John Fiske, The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America - obsoleteGermany.
I observe, in Turinge in Dutchland, […]
1838, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, sixteenth edition (printed from the authorized copy of 1651), Democritus Junior to the Reader, page 512 more examples
[…] a comedian no less handsome and no less kind in Dutchland than Mrs. Johnson was in England […]
1688, George Etherege, in a letter (written from Regensburg (Ratisbon)) to Middleton, printed in 1982 in A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, […] and Other Stage Personnel in London, volume 8, page 170Before 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.
1886, The Education OutlookSynonyms: Germanland, Germany
- datedhumorousoftenrareHolland; The Netherlands (the region inhabited by the Dutch).
Isle of Ameyland, Dutchland - German ocean - 7 30
1822-26, Ebenezer Sibly, An Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology, part 3, page 9951 more example
The finest gallery of pictures in Dutchland is the Mesdag Museum, containing the art collections of the painter H. W. Mesdag.
1913, Hugh Johnston, Travel films: being pen pictures of Europe
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounGermany.
Origin
- Middle High Germandiutschland
- Middle Dutchduutsche land
- Middle EnglishDuchelond“Germany”
- EnglishDutchland
From Middle English Duchelond (“Germany”), from Middle Dutch duutsche land or from late Middle High German diutschland, both 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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