polder

«polder» in Mova's school dictionary: A piece of low, flat land taken back from the sea or a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a polder, polders)

meaning for a pupil

A piece of low, flat land taken back from the sea or a lake and protected by dykes (walls of earth), mainly in the Netherlands. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons: the Dutch built polders by building dykes and pumping water out, once with windmills, now with pumps. About a quarter of the Netherlands is below sea level. Farms and towns stand on polders.

examples

• Much of Holland is made of polders. tree →
• Windmills pumped water out of the polders. tree →
• The polder is below sea level. tree →
• Farmers grow tulips on the polders. tree →
• A dyke protects the polder from the sea. tree →
• We cycled across a flat Dutch polder. tree →

note

A Dutch word used in English. Countable. Related: dyke (dike in US), reclaimed land.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «polder» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.