low countries

1. 1.

   the lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofEurope

Questions about low countries

What does low countries mean?

low countries means "the lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands".

Is low countries a common word?

low countries is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.