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gracht

gracht noun: a canal in a city, with houses on each side.

Noun

gracht (plural grachts)

  1. A canal in a city, with houses on each side.
    • Besides the grachts enumerated, there is an inner semicircular one, called the Cingel, the name usually given to the outer fosse; a much wider space, called the Binnen Amstel, receiving the first inlet of water from the river of that name; several capacious basons or docks; and at least a hundred...1848, James Silk Buckingham, Belgium, the Rhine, Switzerland, and Holland: An Autumnal Tour

Forms of gracht

pluralgrachts

Origin of gracht

Borrowed from Dutch gracht.

Questions about gracht

What does gracht mean?
Gracht means a canal in a city, with houses on each side.
What part of speech is gracht?
Gracht is a noun.
What is the plural of gracht?
The plural of gracht is grachts.

Words near gracht in the dictionary

  1. graceworthy
  2. Gracey
  3. Graceys
  4. grachki
  5. grachkis
  6. gracht
  7. grachts
  8. Graci
  9. Gracia
  10. gracialisation
  11. Graciano

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