Amsterdam

[am-ster-dam, ahm-stuhr-dahm]

noun

1. a city in and the official capital of the Netherlands.

2. a city in E New York.

Amsterdam

/ ɑmstərˈdɑm, ˌæmstəˈdæm /

noun

1. the commercial capital of the Netherlands, a major industrial centre and port on the IJsselmeer, connected with the North Sea by canal: built on about 100 islands within a network of canals. Pop: 737 000 (2003 est)

Amsterdam

1. Capital of The Netherlands, located in the west-central region of the country.

Seat of one of the world's chief stock exchanges and a center of the diamond-cutting industry, the city is also known for its canals and for a great art museum, the Rijksmuseum.

Example Sentences

The painting first spotted online, Portrait of a Lady, was among the collection of Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, much of which was forcibly sold by the Nazis after his death.

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Portrait of a Lady was among the collection of Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, much of which was forcibly sold by the Nazis after his death.

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Post-war, some of the works were recovered in Germany and put on display in Amsterdam's Rijkmuseum as part of the Dutch national collection.

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Derillio Alexander, 33, who is normally based in Amsterdam, said he was performing at Carnival with Ebony Steel Band.

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He then fled to the Netherlands before being arrested in a taxi in Amsterdam in December of that year and once again extradited back to the UK.

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