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Randstad

Randstad proper noun: a region, a roughly crescent-shaped conurbation in the Netherlands which includes the four largest cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and The Hague) and surrounds the Groene Hart.

Proper noun

Randstad

  1. A region, a roughly crescent-shaped conurbation in the Netherlands which includes the four largest cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and The Hague) and surrounds the Groene Hart.

Origin of Randstad

Borrowed from Dutch Randstad.

Questions about Randstad

What does Randstad mean?
Randstad means a region, a roughly crescent-shaped conurbation in the Netherlands which includes the four largest cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and The Hague) and surrounds the Groene Hart.
What part of speech is Randstad?
Randstad is a proper noun.

Words near Randstad in the dictionary

  1. Randroid
  2. Randroids
  3. rands
  4. Randsburg
  5. Randsfjorden
  6. Randstad
  7. randumb
  8. Randwick
  9. Randwick and Westrip
  10. randy
  11. randy mandies

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