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Low Dutch

Low Dutch proper noun: low German.

Proper noun

Low Dutch

  1. (archaic) Low German.
    • There were ſeveral of his Prieſts and Lawyers preſent, (as I conjectured by their habits) who were commanded to addreſs themſelves to me, and I ſpoke to them in as many Languages as I had the leaſt ſmattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spaniſh, Italian, and Lingua Franca; but...1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Emperor of Lilliput, Attended by Several of the Nobility, Come to See the Author in His Confinement. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World....
    • The German is again sub-divided into South German or Gothic, Middle German, and Low German, or Low Dutch. … The Low Dutch is spoken by the people of Lower Saxony, Friesland, Holland, and Belgium.1815, in: The British Review, and London Critical Journal. Vol. VI, London, p. 476ff., here p. 510

Adjective

Low Dutch

  1. (archaic) Low German.
    • It was only towards the East, where Germany bordered on the Slavonic nations, that the Empire had much chance of extending itself. The Wends, the Slavonic people along the south coast of the Baltic, in Mecklenburg and Pomerania and the other lands beyond the Elbe, gradually became Christians and...1876 (new. ed.; 1st ed. 1872), Edward A. Freeman, Freeman's Historical Course for Schools: General Sketch of History. Adapted for American Students, new edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company...
    • The Teutonic family is divided into three great branches: the High-Dutch, the Low-Dutch, and the Scandinavian; [...] To the Low-Dutch, who dwelt mostly in the low countries near the mouths of the rivers flowing into the German Ocean, belong many of the North Germans, the Frisians, Hollanders, and...1877, Ella S. Armitage, The Childhood of the English Nation or the Beginnings of English History, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 8f.

Synonyms of Low Dutch

Antonyms

Forms of Low Dutch

alternative formLow-Dutch

Questions about Low Dutch

What does Low Dutch mean?
Low Dutch means low German.
What part of speech is Low Dutch?
Low Dutch can be a proper noun or an adjective.

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