Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

united provinces

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables
unit-ed provinces
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A republic that existed from the formal creation of a confederacy in 1581 by several Dutch provinces (which earlier seceded from Spanish rule) until the Batavian Revolution in 1795; the predecessor state of the modern Netherlands.

Inflected Forms

the United Provinces (canonical)

Synonyms

Dutch Republic Republic of the Seven United Netherlands

Questions

What does united provinces mean?
A historic region of India, now the state of Uttar Pradesh.

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