Rotterdam

[rot-er-dam, rawt-uhr-dahm]

noun

1. a seaport in SW Netherlands.

2. a town in E New York, on the Mohawk River.

Rotterdam

/ ˈrɒtəˌdæm /

noun

1. a port in the SW Netherlands, in South Holland province: the second largest city of the Netherlands and one of the world's largest ports; oil refineries, shipbuilding yards, etc. Pop: 600 000 (2003 est)

Rotterdam

1. City in the western Netherlands, near the North Sea. Second-largest city in The Netherlands, after Amsterdam, and its major foreign-trade center.

The center of the city was destroyed during World War II by German bombs.

Example Sentences

The drug is usually shipped in large container ships to European ports like Rotterdam and Antwerp.

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A child has damaged a painting worth millions of pounds by the American artist Mark Rothko at a museum in Rotterdam.

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Aurora is currently in Rotterdam in the Netherlands as its refit continues.

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Congestion in the UK "is particularly severe in Felixstowe", while in continental Europe Rotterdam and Barcelona are "also pretty severe".

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The report said the Solong had left Grangemouth in Scotland by 20:00 GMT the day before the crash and was heading to Rotterdam using a route it had previously used.

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