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Zeist

American  
[zahyst] / zaɪst /

noun

  1. a city in the central Netherlands.


Zeist British  
/ zaɪst, zɛjst /

noun

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

"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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A month after the charges against Masud had been made public, Scottish judges rejected Megrahi's posthumous appeal and upheld the verdict delivered at Camp Zeist 20 years earlier.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023

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

For instance, take diagnosis: the Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine in Zeist, the Netherlands, has conducted several studies that attempt to unify Eastern and Western diagnostic principles.

From Nature • Dec. 21, 2011

At the age of eighty he went over to Holland, visited the Brethren's beautiful settlement at Zeist, met there his old friend, Bishop Anthony Seifferth, and asked to hear some Moravian music and singing.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund

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