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English Dictionary: Dutch by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Dutch
adj
  1. of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture; "Dutch painting"; "Dutch painters"
n
  1. the people of the Netherlands; "the Dutch are famous for their tulips"
    Synonym(s): Dutch, Dutch people
  2. the West Germanic language of the Netherlands
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dutch \Dutch\, a. [D. duitsch German; or G. deutsch, orig.,
      popular, national, OD. dietsc, MHG. diutsch, tiutsch, OHG.
      diutisk, fr. diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS.
      pe[a2]d, OS. thiod, thioda, Goth. piuda; cf. Lith. tauta
      land, OIr. tuath people, Oscan

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dutch \Dutch\, n.
      1. pl. The people of Holland; Dutchmen.
  
      2. The language spoken in Holland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   German \Ger"man\, n.; pl. {Germans}[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis
      origin.]
      1. A native or one of the people of Germany.
  
      2. The German language.
  
      3.
            (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding
                  in capriciosly involved figures.
            (b) A social party at which the german is danced.
  
      {High German}, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern
            Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th
            to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the
            15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of
            Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature.
            The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern
            literary language, are often called Middle German, and the
            Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is
            also used to cover both groups.
  
      {Low German}, the language of Northern Germany and the
            Netherlands, -- including {Friesic}; {Anglo-Saxon} or
            {Saxon}; {Old Saxon}; {Dutch} or {Low Dutch}, with its
            dialect, {Flemish}; and {Plattdeutsch} (called also {Low
            German}), spoken in many dialects.
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