new amsterdam

1. 1.

   a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York

   Broadercolony

   Part ofNew York

Questions about new amsterdam

What does new amsterdam mean?

new amsterdam means "a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York".

Is new amsterdam a common word?

new amsterdam 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.