new holland
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A village, civil parish, and port in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0823).
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A settlement in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.
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A number of places in the United States:
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A number of places in the United States:
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A number of places in the United States:
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Example Sentences
- "1787, Chart of New Holland, published by J. Stockdale, London https://web.archive.org/web/20060107065752/http://www.nla.gov.au/rmaps/nk1586.html"
- "Colonisation began towards the end of 1826, when a British settlement was founded at Albany, on the southern coast, and in the next year the whole territory (then known as New Holland) became a possession of the British Crown."
Etymology
(sense 1) Coined in 1644 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman as Nieuw Holland. (sense 2) Uncertain, Parts of Holland was in the south of Lincolnshire.