Zeist

American  

[zahyst] / zaɪst /

noun

1. a city in the central Netherlands.

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Zeist British  

/ zaɪst, zɛjst /

noun

1. a city in the central Netherlands, near Utrecht. Pop: 60 000 (2003 est)

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Zeist

Years of deadlock and sanctions followed, until the involvement of Nelson Mandela and a UN-brokered deal led to a trial in a Scottish court at Camp Zeist, a former US airbase in the Netherlands.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023

At a Scottish trial before a court at Camp Zeist in The Netherlands, Megrahi was found guilty of the bombing in 2001 and was jailed for life.

From Reuters ● Dec. 12, 2022

Hendrikus Johannes Witteveen was born in the town of Zeist, in the central Netherlands, on June 12, 1921.

From Washington Post ● May 1, 2019

After Heineken and the chauffeur were liberated, the Dutch police claimed to have found most of the ransom buried in a wooded area near the town of Zeist, thirty-five miles southeast of Amsterdam.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018

M. de Zeist, one of the richest Nobles of this Province, is Deputy of the Province of Utrecht, in which he has a great Estate.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz