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I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.
Anton Corbijn

Meaning of "Amsterdam" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AMSTERDAM

Amsterdam  [ˌæmstəˈdæm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AMSTERDAM

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Amsterdam is a noun.
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WHAT DOES AMSTERDAM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam (English /ˈæmstədæm/; Dutch: ( listen)) is the capital city of and the most populous within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the Dutch capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands though it is not the seat of the Dutch government, which is at The Hague (Den Haag). Amsterdam has a population of 810,909 within the city-proper, 1,108,297 in the urban region and 1,571,234 in the greater metropolitan area. The city is located in the province of North Holland (Noord Holland) in the west of the country. It comprises much of the northern part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe, with a population of approximately 7 million. Amsterdam's name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the city's origin as a dam of the river Amstel. Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became one of the most important ports in the world during the Dutch Golden Age (17th century), a result of its innovative developments in trade. During that time, the city was the leading center for finance and diamonds.

Definition of Amsterdam in the English dictionary

The definition of Amsterdam in the dictionary is the commercial capital of the Netherlands, a major industrial centre and port on the IJsselmeer, connected with the North Sea by canal: built on about 100 islands within a network of canals. Pop: 737 000.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AMSTERDAM


bedamn
bɪˈdæm
cofferdam
ˈkɒfəˌdæm
commendam
kəˈmɛndæm
dam
dæm
damn
dæm
Edam
ˈiːdæm
goddam
ˈɡɒdæm
goddamn
ˈɡɒdˈdæm
land-damne
ˈlændˌdæm
mesdames
ˈmeɪˌdæm
milldam
ˈmɪlˌdæm
Potsdam
ˈpɒtsdæm
quidam
ˈkwiːdæm
quondam
ˈkwɒndæm
Rotterdam
ˈrɒtəˌdæm
undam
ʌnˈdæm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AMSTERDAM

Amraoti
Amravati
amreeta
amrit
Amrit Ceremony
amrita
amritattva
Amritsar
AMS
amsinckia
amt
amtman
amtrac
amtrack
Amtrak
amu
Amu Darya

WORDS THAT END LIKE AMSTERDAM

Adam
air dam
arch dam
beldam
bemadam
grandam
gravity dam
macadam
madam
muqaddam
New Amsterdam
not know someone from Adam
Schiedam
tarmacadam
the madam
the old Adam
Villiers de l´Isle Adam
Zaandam

Synonyms and antonyms of Amsterdam in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Amsterdam» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AMSTERDAM

Find out the translation of Amsterdam to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Amsterdam from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Amsterdam» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

阿姆斯特丹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Amsterdam
570 millions of speakers

English

Amsterdam
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एम्स्टर्डम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أمستردام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Амстердам
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Amsterdam
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আমস্টারডাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Amsterdam
220 millions of speakers

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Amsterdam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Amsterdam
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アムステルダム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

암스테르담
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Amsterdam
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Amsterdam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆம்ஸ்டர்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अॅमस्टरडॅम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Amsterdam
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Amsterdam
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Amsterdam
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Амстердам
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Amsterdam
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Άμστερνταμ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Amsterdam
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Amsterdam
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Amsterdam
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Amsterdam

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AMSTERDAM»

The term «Amsterdam» is very widely used and occupies the 4.892 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AMSTERDAM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Amsterdam» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Amsterdam» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Amsterdam

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10 QUOTES WITH «AMSTERDAM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Amsterdam.
1
Adele
I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.
2
Ike Barinholtz
I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
3
Julie Burchill
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
4
Linda Cardellini
I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
5
Jackie Collins
I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
6
Anton Corbijn
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
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Anton Corbijn
I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.
8
Alice Morse Earle
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.
9
Janet Echelman
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
10
Kenneth Frampton
From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMSTERDAM»

Discover the use of Amsterdam in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Amsterdam and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Amsterdam
What happens in the aftermath of her funeral has a profound and shocking effect on all her lovers' lives, and erupts in the most purely enjoyable fiction Ian McEwan has ever written. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ian McEwan, 2010
2
Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits ...
A revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West Ian Buruma 's Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a crime novel and the ...
Ian Buruma, 2007
3
Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges & Brussels
The self-guided tours in this book will lead you on bike rides over cobblestone streets and on cruises through charming canals. Stop to smell the tulips as you hike past whirring windmills.
Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw, 2013
4
Imagining Global Amsterdam: History, Culture, and Geography ...
Imagining Global Amsterdam gaat over het beeld van Amsterdam in film, literatuur, visuele kunst en in het moderne stedelijke discours, in het bijzonder in de context van de mondialisering.
Marco de Waard, 2012
5
A Little Trouble in Amsterdam Level 2 ...
But they can't prove anything and nobody will believe them. This paperback is in American English. Audio recordings of the text are available on our website at: www.cambridge.org/elt/discoveryreaders/ame
Richard MacAndrew, Nicholas Tims, 2010
6
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and ...
Perhaps the most informative chapter in the book covers the extraordinarily diverse religious life of these Protestant Germans, which, while dominated by the Lutheran and Reformed churches, also accommodated Moravians, Mennonites, Brethren, ...
Samuel S. Purple, 2009
7
The Amsterdam Connection Level 4
Modern, original fiction for learners of English.
Sue Leather, 2001
8
Life in New Amsterdam
An overview of life from 1624 to 1664 in New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony which was the first settlement along the Hudson River Valley in New York state and which grew to be New York City.
Laura Fischer, 2003
9
Get Lost!: The Cool Guide to Amsterdam)
The new, 11th edition sizzles with the freshest and most exciting things to do in Amsterdam. Opinionated, but never irreverent, Get Lost! remains the only guide to cover Amsterdam's underground culture accurately and extensively.
John Sinclair, 2013
10
Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in ...
Comparative urban history examines early modern economic and cultural achievements in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London.
Patrick O'Brien, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMSTERDAM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Amsterdam is used in the context of the following news items.
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This restaurant concept could be coming to the Triad
Fast Casual magazine has named Amsterdam Falafelshop to its "Top 100 Movers & Shakers” list. The restaurant came in at No. 50, Sharoff ... «Triad Business Journal, Jul 15»
2
Easyjet A319 at Amsterdam on Jul 5th 2015, engine vibrations
An Easyjet Airbus A319-100, registration G-EZFP performing flight U2-4994 from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Rome Fiumicino (Italy), was in ... «The Aviation Herald, Jul 15»
3
Residents beaten with hammers in two Amsterdam home invasions
Several men invaded a home in Eerste Kekerstraat in Amsterdam-Zuidoost around 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. They beat two residents with a ... «NL Times, Jul 15»
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Transavia B738 at Amsterdam on Jul 4th 2015, bird strike
A Transavia Boeing 737-800, registration PH-HSD performing flight HV-131 from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Dalaman (Turkey), departed ... «The Aviation Herald, Jul 15»
5
Tilburg, Amsterdam produce most solar power
Amsterdam, Zwolle and Sudwest Fryslan have the largest capacity to generate solar energy. But per resident, Amsterdam is on 390th place in ... «NL Times, Jul 15»
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Diana Douglas, 1st wife of Amsterdam native Kirk Douglas, dies at 92
LOS ANGELES — Diana Douglas, the first wife of Amsterdam native Kirk Douglas and mother of Michael Douglas, died Saturday in Los ... «The Daily Gazette, Jul 15»
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Local Roundup: Amsterdam Mohawks top Glens Falls in 10th-inning …
AMSTERDAM >> Scott Manea's bases-loaded single drove in Riley Mahan for the game-winning run in Amsterdam's 4-3 victory over Glens ... «The Saratogian, Jul 15»
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Saddle-sore Stevenage cyclists are already limbering up for their …
Neil Trebble, Andy Medlock, Keith Stewart, Steve Watkins and Stephen Hibberd cycled from The Lamex Stadium to Amsterdam earlier this ... «Comet 24, Jul 15»
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Amber Heard is a vision in a vintage green dress on Amsterdam
When in Amsterdam! Amber Heard spent a relaxing day in the Dutch city as she meandered through the streets on a bike on Thursday. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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The Butcher is a cross between a takeaway shop and diner …
FORGET the red light district, the shops of The Nine Streets and the flower markets, and head off the tourist trail to one of Amsterdam's hippest ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»

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