united provinces
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
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