Zuider Zee

American  

[zahy-der zey, zee, zœi-duhr zey] / ˈzaɪ dər ˈzeɪ, ˈzi, ˈzœɪ dər ˈzeɪ /

noun

1. a former shallow inlet of the North Sea in central Netherlands.

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Zuider Zee British  

/ ˈzœidər ˈzeː, ˈzaɪdə ˈziː /

noun

1. a former inlet of the North Sea in the N coast of the Netherlands sealed off from the sea by a dam in 1932, dividing it into the Waddenzee and the freshwater IJsselmeer, with several large reclaimed areas

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Example Sentences

Zuider Zee has not been at his best this year, but anything close to his dead-heat for fourth place with Times Up at Sandown in May should get him home comfortably this afternoon.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2012

With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water.

From Time Magazine Archive

As far as written history records, the Zuider Zee of the Netherlands was until 1395 a fresh-water lake.

From Time Magazine Archive

By 1952 swamps will be reclaimed, almost 1,000,000 acres of land reclaimed, and the Zuider Zee made again into an inland lake.

From Time Magazine Archive

He obtained from the emperor Otto III., with whom he was in great favour in 983, a considerable extension of territory, that now covered by the Zuider Zee and southward down to Nijmwegen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various