Rotterdam

[rot-er-dam; for 1 also Dutch rawt-uh r-dahm]

noun

a seaport in SW Netherlands.
a town in E New York, on the Mohawk River.

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Contemporary Examples of rotterdam

I help advise Omer, a twenty-eight year old journalist, in his doctoral studies at Rotterdam University.
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Matt Sienkiewicz
May 1, 2013
But compared to its peers, like Rotterdam or Amsterdam, New York City is not as well prepared.
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Matthew Zeitlin
November 3, 2012
The infrastructure protecting low-lying Amsterdam and Rotterdam are built to withstand 10,000-year storms.
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Matthew Zeitlin
November 3, 2012
He had just moved up from Kinheim to the Rotterdam Neptunes this year at the age of 22.
Murder at Home Plate
Nadette De Visser
November 23, 2011

Historical Examples of rotterdam

The first aspect of Rotterdam is strongly in favour of the people.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327
Various
This was her first voyage, and she was said to be the largest ship out of Rotterdam.
Ned Myers
James Fenimore Cooper
Shall get to Ostend, or Rotterdam, safe and snug; thence to Paris.
Night and Morning, Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Are you going to land them at the Hook or take them on to Rotterdam, sir?
Roden's Corner
Henry Seton Merriman
I have also given Erasmus of Rotterdam a Passion engraved in copper.
Albert Durer
T. Sturge Moore

British Dictionary definitions for rotterdam

Rotterdam

noun

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)

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rotterdam in Culture

Rotterdam

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

Note

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