Minuit

American  

[min-yoo-it] / ˈmɪn yu ɪt /

noun

1. Peter, 1580–1638, Dutch colonial administrator in America: director general of the New Netherlands 1626–31.

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Example Sentences

And 57,000 people who just wanted to fish and mind their own business are waking up to discover they’re sitting on the most valuable real estate since Peter Minuit came upon Manhattan.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

I spot a shelf full of what look like freshly printed copies of Beckett plays and novels from his longtime French publisher, Les Éditions de Minuit.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

One version of this legend maintains Minuit made the purchase from the Canarsie, but they resided in Queens, the western-most end of Long Island.

From Scientific American • Oct. 14, 2018

Minuit bought the land from the local Algonquin Indians, who were settled on large farms.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Blommaert held out the idea that the West Indies would be a market for Swedish copper; Minuit that the Delaware region offered a place for the fur trade and colonization.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene