Amsterdam

[ am-ster-dam; Dutch ahm-stuhr-dahm ]

noun

1. a city in and the official capital of the Netherlands. Compare The Hague.
2. a city in E New York.

Amsterdam

/ ɑmstərˈdɑm; ˌæmstəˈdæm /

noun

1. the commercial capital of the Netherlands, a major industrial centre and port on the IJsselmeer, connected with the North Sea by canal: built on about 100 islands within a network of canals. Pop: 737 000 (2003 est)

Amsterdam

1. Capital of The Netherlands , located in the west-central region of the country.

Notes

Seat of one of the world's chief stock exchanges and a center of the diamond-cutting industry, the city is also known for its canals and for a great art museum, the Rijksmuseum.

Example Sentences

Ushakov is in Amsterdam, co-founder Eugene Molodkin is in St.

From TechCrunch

It has found an audience among reformers, and now the city of Amsterdam is going whole doughnut.

From Freakonomics

Again, only because I perhaps wrongly think of Amsterdam and the Netherlands as pretty progressive when it comes to clean energy and pollution and so on.

From Freakonomics

So, we have quite high standards for building companies who want to build in Amsterdam when it comes to energy use, when it comes to materials that they use, the kind of circularity that they put into their buildings.

From Freakonomics

Thanks to Marieke van Doorninck for speaking with us from Amsterdam.

From Freakonomics

Banks grew up far from the trailer park—up on 152nd St. and Amsterdam in Harlem.

From The Daily Beast

Outposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam.

From The Daily Beast

He was in awe of Tel Aviv, a gay-friendly city with Pride parades rivaling those in Berlin and Amsterdam.

From The Daily Beast

After Cuba turned them away, they returned to Amsterdam, which was soon captured by the Nazis.

From The Daily Beast

But as he worked on the epidemic locally in Amsterdam and Western Europe, Lange also was thinking globally.

From The Daily Beast

But she did not succeed in finding a suitable studio, neither an instructor who pleased her, and she returned to Amsterdam.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1883 she served with many distinguished artists on the art jury of the International Exhibition at Amsterdam.

From Project Gutenberg

The theatre at Amsterdam, in Holland, took fire and burned to death 31 persons.

From Project Gutenberg

At this crisis the inhabitants of Amsterdam opened the sluices and laid the country under water.

From Project Gutenberg

The wealth which was collected within five miles of the Stadthouse of Amsterdam would purchase the fee simple of Scotland.

From Project Gutenberg