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New Amsterdam
[ am-ster-dam ]
noun
- a former Dutch town on Manhattan Island: the capital of New Netherland; renamed New York by the British in 1664.
- a city in NE Guyana, on the Berbice River.
New Amsterdam
noun
- the Dutch settlement established on Manhattan (1624–26); capital of New Netherland; captured by the English and renamed New York in 1664
New Amsterdam
- A city founded by Dutch settlers in the seventeenth century on the present site of New York City .
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Example Sentences
Under their agreement, the city of New Amsterdam would keep its mixed population and the Dutch features of capitalism and relative tolerance, but the settlement and its inhabitants would transfer to English rule.
“I started at the New Amsterdam Theatre, when the ‘Lion King’ was there.
So, when the Dutch Consulate in New York approached Stonefish to ask if he’d help commemorate the anniversary of the 1624 establishment of the first Dutch settler colony, New Amsterdam, he was taken aback.
The teenagers said there was a fully stocked bar with New Amsterdam vodka and Malibu rum, with the games of beer pong using hard liquor instead.
These concerts capitalized on Wild Up’s devoted attention to the Eastman catalog, which so far has included two portrait albums released on the New Amsterdam label.
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