The Netherlands is the flat country of tulips, windmills, and millions of bicycles. Live in the Netherlands, from the Netherlands, the Dutch Netherlands.
About a quarter of it lies below sea level and it is kept dry by a system of dykes, dunes and pumps that is the largest engineering project any country runs continuously. Holland is only two of its twelve provinces, though it is widely used for the whole. Note that the name means the low lands.
1nounnetherlandsThe flat north European country of tulips and bicycles.
“Much of the Netherlands lies below sea level, protected by dykes.”
netherlands is a country.
Also accepted in games: holland
Nether plus lands — the low lands. Nether is an old English word meaning lower, as in nether regions.
Play on Netherlands, from nether + land.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Countries & Flags