brabantian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Brabant or its people.
adj
Of or pertaining to the Brabantian dialect.
name
The Dutch dialect mainly spoken in North Brabant (the Netherlands), Antwerp and Flemish Brabant provinces (Belgium).
noun
A person from the respective provinces or historic region of Brabant (especially if Brabantian-speaking).
Example Sentences
- "The Brabantian Calvinists emigrated en masse to Holland after the Sack of Antwerp in the 1580s."
- "That is a Brabantian accent, not a Limburgish one!"
- "He speaks Brabantian with his schoolmates, and Belgian Standard Dutch in the classroom and with unfamiliar teachers in the playground, a classic example of diglossia."
- "The Brabantians used to be known as rather reticent and stubborn, in contrast to their more open and louder Northern neighbors, i.e. the Dutch."