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Dutch / dəch/ • adj. of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or their language.• n. 1. the West Germanic language of the Netherlands.2. [as pl. n.] (the Dutch) the people of the Netherlands collectively.PHRASES: go dutch share the cost of something, esp. a meal, equally.in dutch inf., dated in trouble: he's been getting in dutch at school.ORIGIN: from Middle Dutch dutsch ‘Dutch, Netherlandish, German’: the English word originally denoted speakers of both High and Low German, but became more specific after the United Provinces adopted the Low German of Holland as the national language on independence in 1579.

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