antwerpenaar
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A native or inhabitant of Antwerp.
Example Sentences
- "It is part of the prison constructed in one of the angles of the citadel, which was built by the Duke of Alva to keep the rebellious Antwerpenaars in check."
- "At the head of the famous Antwerpenaars belonging to the immediate circle of Rubens stands Van Dyck."
- "In helping him, these Antwerpenaars were risking not only death but torture—for he had Fräulein’s secrets."
- "[…] his fellow-citizens—they take pride in not being Antwerpenaars themselves."
- "The spacious and idealistic plans of Willem Usselincx, one of the many ex-Antwerpenaars resident in Amsterdam, for the colonization of the New World as a new world, found no sympathetic hearing in realistic Amsterdam, and the West India Company was modelled fairly closely after the East India Company."
- "In the early 1560s the Protestants there were strengthened both quantitatively and qualitatively by an influx of gentry and wealthy Antwerpenaars, who put this previously small group in touch with their co-religionists at Antwerp."
Etymology
From Dutch Antwerpenaar.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Antwerpenaar