Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area of low-lying land, especially in the Netherlands, that has been reclaimed from a body of water and is protected by dikes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boggy or marshy soil; a morass; specifically, a tract of marshy land in the Netherlands, Flanders, and northern Germany, which has been reclaimed and brought under cultivation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Holland & Belgium A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of
dikes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dutchman's mouth water -- a "polder" of surpassing excellence, but it is viewed in a different light by enthusiastic wild duck shooters, who, like the owner of a grouse moor, look upon drainage and reclamation as the visible work of the devil.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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On the opposite side of the road stretches a long, flat meadow, or "polder," up to the little village which nestles so snugly around its tall church tower; the latter fulfilling also the purpose of a beacon, lit by night, to guide the wayfarer on sea and land; scene of tireless industry, comfortable prosperity, and smiling peace. ...
Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902
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His stuff isn't precisely fantasy or science fiction, but sits in that polder between purely genre books and purely mainstream.
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You don't have to go through a portal to find a magic polder, a refuge from reality.
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You can keep following the Vecht to where it breaks into open polder land, viewing, while you're at it, the system of fortifications that used flooding as a military defense system for the country.
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I have been absent as I am working on a Dutch language history book on the pre-internet period in the polder.
BPN 1422 iRex Technologies bancrupt Jak Boumans 2010
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Lately the blog has been underused, as a book is being produced about the pre-internet period in the polder, electronic media in The Netherlands from 1967-1997.
BPN 1423 Our company EMR celebrates 20 years of existence Jak Boumans 2010
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Lately the blog has been underused, as a book is being produced about the pre-internet period in the polder, electronic media in The Netherlands from 1967-1997.
Buziaulane Jak Boumans 2010
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Half an hour by train from Amsterdam, formidably modern Almere sits on the flat plain of the Flevoland polder – a tract of land enclosed by dykes bordering the waters of the Markermeer.
Geert Wilders, the ultra-right firebrand, campaigns to be Holland's prime minister Almere Peter Beaumont 2010
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Just 39% of those living in the city are native Dutch, half born in Amsterdam, who were attracted by the idea of a quiet life in the midst of the green polder.
Geert Wilders, the ultra-right firebrand, campaigns to be Holland's prime minister Almere Peter Beaumont 2010
oroboros commented on the word polder
Reclaimed lowlands, as in the Netherlands; reclaimed from the sea and protected by dikes. Used by Jared Diamond in "Collapse" ("the Earth is a polder").
April 2, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word polder
"Their big pile, which weighs down the middle of the island with its austere vernacular chunkiness, is dubbed 'Holland', because of some Traill's dubious notion that this green lozenge resembled the fertile polders of the Netherlands."
Psychogeography by Will Self, 228
October 17, 2010