new netherland

1. 1.

   a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam; annexed by the English in 1664

   Broadercolony

   Part ofNew York

Questions about new netherland

What does new netherland mean?

new netherland means "a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam; annexed by the English in 1664".

Is new netherland a common word?

new netherland 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.