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Zeeland

[ zee-luhnd; Dutch zey-lahnt ]

noun

  1. a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1,041 sq. mi. (2,695 sq. km). : Middelburg.


Zeeland

/ ˈzeːlɑnt; ˈziːlənd /

noun

  1. a province of the SW Netherlands: consists of a small area on the mainland together with a number of islands in the Scheldt estuary; mostly below sea level. Capital: Middelburg. Pop: 378 000 (2003 est). Area: 1787 sq km (690 sq miles)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He found them lying at anchor in one of the Zeeland streams.

There was an Indian company which was backed by the province of Zeeland.

He returned to Zeeland to die, but was cured mysteriously by a strolling quack.

The florin had twenty stivers; the regular Holland dollar had fifty stivers, the Zeeland dollar had forty-two.

He was furnished with four ships of Amsterdam, two of Rotterdam and one from Zeeland.

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