Meaning of holland | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland
2. A traditional region of the Netherlands formed by two modern provinces, North Holland and South Holland.
3. A geographic area, one of the three traditional divisions of the county of Lincolnshire, England; also called the Parts of Holland.
4. A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.
   countable, historical, uncountable
5. the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe).
   informal, metonymically, proscribed
6. An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from any of the various places in England named Holland.
7. An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from the Netherlands.
8. A number of places in the United States:
9. A minor city in Faulkner County, Arkansas.
10. An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.
11. A town in Cass Township, Dubois County, Indiana.
12. A minor city in Grundy County, Iowa.
13. An unincorporated community in Dickinson County, Kansas.
14. An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky.
15. A town and census-designated place therein, in Hampden County, Massachusetts.
16. A township in Missaukee County, Michigan.
17. A township in Ottawa County, Michigan.
18. A city in Ottawa County and Allegan County, Michigan.
19. A township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.
20. A minor city in Pipestone County, Minnesota.
21. A neighbourhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
22. A town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
23. A township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
24. An unincorporated community in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
25. A town in Erie County, New York.
26. An unincorporated community in Wake County, North Carolina.
27. A village in Springfield Township, Lucas County, Ohio.
28. An unincorporated community in Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
29. A city in Bell County, Texas.
30. A town in Orleans County, Vermont.
31. A town in Brown County, Wisconsin.
32. A town in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
33. A town in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
34. A community in the Rural Municipality of Victoria, Manitoba, Canada.
35. A southern suburb of Oxted, Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ4050).
36. A settlement on Papa Westray, Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HY4851).

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Examples

“Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.”

“I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France were shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement.”

“His apartments were blank. Brown hollands covered his library-table”

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