Low Countries

American  

plural noun

1. the lowland region near the North Sea, forming the lower basin of the Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt rivers, divided in the Middle Ages into numerous small states: corresponding to modern Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

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Low Countries British  

plural noun

1. the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands

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Example Sentences

The ill-fated plan, which aimed to sweep around heavy German defenses by cutting through the Low Countries, required Allied airborne forces to seize key bridges behind enemy lines and hold them until armor could advance.

From Washington Post

Without overwhelming help from the Allies in World Wars I and II, France and the Low Countries of Netherlands and Belgium would have been overrun by the Nazis.

From Washington Post

In Canada, as in the Low Countries, the accelerants were aggressive conceptions of individual rights and equality.

From Washington Post

The Netherlands formerly included Flanders and thus were equivalent geographically and etymologically to the Low Countries”.

From The Guardian

We do at least set out in the amiable company of Albrecht Dürer — on a journey he took to the Low Countries in 1520 and 1521.

From Washington Post