polder
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of polder
Borrowed into English from Dutch around 1595–1605
Vocabulary lists containing polder
Human Geography - High School
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Western Europe - Middle School and High School
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Example Sentences
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The devastation of Sardar's polder, Polder 32, starkly illustrates the dangers posed by that confluence of climate change and decades of hydraulic tinkering.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 1, 2018
Other communities, such as the one on Polder 22, have been able to physically keep the shrimp farms off their island, but they haven’t been able to save their water.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2017
Although rustic and primitive, her small plot of land on Polder 22 is lush with mango and guava trees.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2017
So too did double Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton after finishing fifth on Pacha du Polder in the Foxhunter Chase won by another female jockey Nina Carberry.
From Reuters • Mar. 18, 2016
In 1948 two Dutch physicists, Hendrick B. G. Casimir and Dik Polder, first realized that the zero-point energy can’t always be ignored.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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