say it: RAH-tur-dam
rotterdam is a noun meaning "the 2nd largest city in the Netherlands; located in the western Netherlands near the North Sea". It carries one recorded sense.
the 2nd largest city in the Netherlands; located in the western Netherlands near the North Sea
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rotterdam come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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