Holland | Angol |
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gezelschapsdame substantief {f} | valet [valets](a female chaperone who accompanies a man) |
havendam substantief {c} | breakwater(construction in or around a harbour) |
hofdame substantief {f} | lady-in-waiting(lady in the household of a woman of higher rank who attends her as a personal assistant) |
jongedame substantief {m} | maiden [maidens](unmarried young female) |
kistdam substantief {m} | cofferdam(temporary watertight structure) |
macadamia substantief | macadamia(tree) |
macadamianoot substantief {m} {f} | macadamia nut(edible seed of the macadamia tree) |
moerasdamp substantief {m} | miasma [miasmata](noxious emanation that originates from swamps and causes disease) |
Nieuw-Amsterdam eigennam | New Amsterdam(former name of New York City, when it was a Dutch colony) |
Rotterdam eigennam {n} | Rotterdam(city and port in the Netherlands) |
Rotterdammer substantief {m} | Rotterdammer(person from Rotterdam) |
Rotterdamse substantief {f} | Rotterdammer(person from Rotterdam) |
verdampen werkwoord | dissolve [dissolved, dissolving, dissolves](intransitive: to resolve itself as by dissolution) evaporate [evaporated, evaporating, evaporates]((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state) |
verdamping substantief | evaporation [evaporations](process of liquid converting to the gaseous state) |
verdamping substantief {f} | vaporization [vaporizations](conversion of a solid to gas) |
waterdamp substantief {m} | water vapor(water in a gaseous state) |
zwaard van Damocles substantief {n} | sword of Damocles(thing or situation which causes a prolonged state of impending doom or misfortune) |