zuider zee

1. 1.

   a former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer

   Broaderinlet

   Part ofNorth Sea

Questions about zuider zee

What does zuider zee mean?

zuider zee means "a former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer".

Is zuider zee a common word?

zuider zee 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.