English words for 'The Low Countries.'
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name
- The Low Countries.
- A township in Polk County, Minnesota.
- A village in Vermilion County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Taylor County, West Virginia.
- A country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France. Official name: Kingdom of Belgium. Capital and largest city: Brussels.
- A town and village in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.
noun
name
- (sometimes derogatory) developing countries, especially that of Africa, Asia and Latin America
- (historical, politics) Those countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War.
- (attributive, derogatory, informal) Any developing country, or a country lacking the perceived internationally respected ideal standards of a society (e.g. sufficient rule of law and internationally respected level of prosperity).
- People of marginalized or exploited races, collectively.
noun
- A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
- Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
- A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- (inexact) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.
- (inexact) A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in subfamily †Machairodontinae).
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- A tiger beetle.
- (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina.
- large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
- a fierce or audacious person
noun
noun
- lowness
- (algebra, ring theory) An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).
- the most severe part
- the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
- (statistics) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
- (literary, usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
- (logic) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
- the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
- (horology) a pair of toothed wheels which work together
- (art, photography) the property of appearing three-dimensional
- (cryptography) A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
- (computing, colors) the total palette of available colors
- (aeronautics) the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
- (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
- (literary, usually in the plural) a very remote part.
- (usually plural) a low moral state
- the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
- degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- the extent downward or backward or inward
name
- The Developing World (the developing world).
- The Developed World (the developed world).
- Earth: the Earth (our earth).
- The Fourth World (the fourth world).
- The Second World (the second world).
- The Third World (the third world).
- The First World (the first world).
- Existence.
- The Industrialized World (the industrialized world).
- The Universe: our universe.
noun
- a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically
- (economics) A country with low to medium income although substantial industrialization; (sometimes derogatory) a country with less industrial base, and thus often consequently widespread poverty and low Human Development Index (HDI).
name
- Any of several central regions in several other countries.
- A province in central Zimbabwe. Capital: Gweru.
- (British) A loosely-defined culturally distinct area of England, corresponding to the central horizontal band of England, now administratively realized as regions of the East Midlands and West Midlands.
name
- (politics, economics) A group of countries mainly lying north of the equator, including most of the West and the First World and much of the Second World.
- (UK) The North of England, a cultural region.
- A surname.
- The northern part of any of various other countries or regions.
- (Ireland) Northern Ireland.
- A town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States, named after John North.
- A number of townships in the United States, including in Indiana (2), Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio, listed under North Township; most are named named for their location.
- (US) The northern states of the United States.
- (US) The Union during the American Civil War.
- A civil parish in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada, named for its location.
- North Korea.
adj
noun
- (astronomy) A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
- (mathematical analysis) A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
- (statistics) The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
- The lowest limit.
- The smallest amount.
- the smallest possible quantity
- the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right
verb
- settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
- settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
- (transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
- (intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies.
- (transitive, social sciences, by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
- (transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
- (transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.
noun
- a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal
- Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
- A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
- (historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
name
- A country in North Africa and East Africa.
- A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
- Republic of the Sudan, since 1955
- (historical) Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).
- A minor city in Lamb County, Texas, United States, apparently named after the African region.
- Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955
- Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898
noun
- A state free of war, in particular war between different countries.
- A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.
- Harmony in personal relations.
- (figuratively, euphemistic) Death.
- A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.
- a treaty to cease hostilities
- harmonious relations; freedom from disputes
- the absence of mental stress or anxiety
- the general security of public places
- the state prevailing during the absence of war
intj
verb
adv
adj
name
noun
verb
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
name
- A country in East Africa.
- The Ethiopian Empire, from c. 1270 to 1974; Abyssinia.
- The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, since 1987.
- Italian Ethiopia, from 1936 to 1941.
- (historical) Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the parts south of Egypt and along and east of the Nile.
- Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1987; Derg.
noun
noun
- a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)
- (politics, idiomatic, derogatory) A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.
name
noun
noun
- (countable) A self-sufficient country or region which is not dependent on international trade to function economically.
- (uncountable) (A policy of) national economic self-sufficiency, aimed at ending reliance on foreign imports to sustain a domestic economy.
- (uncountable) A personal condition or state of self-reliance; independence.
- economic independence as a national policy
prep_phrase
noun
- a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo
- a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
- (historical) A former subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the franc.
- A coin having face value of one centime.
noun
name
- (sometimes derogatory) developing countries, especially that of Africa, Asia and Latin America
- (historical, politics) Those countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War.
- (attributive, derogatory, informal) Any developing country, or a country lacking the perceived internationally respected ideal standards of a society (e.g. sufficient rule of law and internationally respected level of prosperity).
- People of marginalized or exploited races, collectively.
noun
- A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
- Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
- A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- (inexact) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.
- (inexact) A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in subfamily †Machairodontinae).
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- A tiger beetle.
- (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina.
- large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
- a fierce or audacious person
noun
noun
- lowness
- (algebra, ring theory) An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).
- the most severe part
- the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
- (statistics) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
- (literary, usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
- (logic) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
- the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
- (horology) a pair of toothed wheels which work together
- (art, photography) the property of appearing three-dimensional
- (cryptography) A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
- (computing, colors) the total palette of available colors
- (aeronautics) the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
- (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
- (literary, usually in the plural) a very remote part.
- (usually plural) a low moral state
- the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
- degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- the extent downward or backward or inward
noun
- a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically
- (economics) A country with low to medium income although substantial industrialization; (sometimes derogatory) a country with less industrial base, and thus often consequently widespread poverty and low Human Development Index (HDI).
noun
- a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal
- Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
- A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
- (historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
noun
- A state free of war, in particular war between different countries.
- A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.
- Harmony in personal relations.
- (figuratively, euphemistic) Death.
- A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.
- a treaty to cease hostilities
- harmonious relations; freedom from disputes
- the absence of mental stress or anxiety
- the general security of public places
- the state prevailing during the absence of war
intj
verb
noun
noun
- a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)
- (politics, idiomatic, derogatory) A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.
noun
- (countable) A self-sufficient country or region which is not dependent on international trade to function economically.
- (uncountable) (A policy of) national economic self-sufficiency, aimed at ending reliance on foreign imports to sustain a domestic economy.
- (uncountable) A personal condition or state of self-reliance; independence.
- economic independence as a national policy
noun
- a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo
- a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
- (historical) A former subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the franc.
- A coin having face value of one centime.
verb
- settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
- settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
- (transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
- (intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies.
- (transitive, social sciences, by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
- (transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
- (transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.
adv
adj
name
noun
verb
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
adj
noun
- (astronomy) A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
- (mathematical analysis) A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
- (statistics) The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
- The lowest limit.
- The smallest amount.
- the smallest possible quantity
- the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right