Dutch–English dictionary

vaderloos

Without a (living) father.

vaderschap

The state of being a father (biological father, stepfather, adoptive father, foster father; sometimes the biological father specifically).

vaderstad

An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.

vadertje

A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

vadertje en moedertje

(uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

vage voorstelling

The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.

vagebond

(North America) A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (pejorative) a penniless, unemployed bum.

vagevuur

(Christianity) An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification.

vaginaal

(relational) Of, relating to, or affecting the vagina.

vak

(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

vakantie

An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.

vakantieoord

A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.

vakbond

An organization whose members belong to the same trade and that acts collectively to address common issues.

vakgebied

An area in business or of knowledge, research.

vakkundigheid

Ability, skill, competence.

vakman

One who is highly skilled at one's trade; an artisan or artificer.

vakmanschap

Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity [9th century].

vaktaal

(countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.

vakterminologie

The stock of words used in a particular field.

val

An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.

valavond

The close of the day; the coming of night.

valbijl

(historical, also, figuratively) A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.

valbrug

A hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it).

valdeur

A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

Valencia

The capital city of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.

Valentijn

A holiday in remembrance of Saint Valentine, February 14th, celebrated by sending cards or similar tokens of love.

Valentinus

An English and Scottish surname derived from the male given name.

valg

(agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

valgeland

(agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

validering

The act of validating something.

validisme

(uncountable) Discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of those without. [from late 20th c.]

valies

A suitcase.

valk

Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.

valkenier

A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey.

vallei

(mainly, Britain, slightly dated outside Yorkshire etc.) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

vallen

(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell. [from 16th c.]

vallende ster

A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star. [from 16th c.]

vallende ziekte

(pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.

valluik

A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

valpartij

An unsteady movement or gait.

vals

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

vals argument

(uncountable) Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

vals schikken

(transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.

vals spoor

(figuratively) A clue, information, argument, etc. that is or is intended to be misleading, diverting attention from the real answer or issue.

valscherm

(aviation) A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float instead of falling.

valse getuigenis

(legal) The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.

valse pathos

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

valselijk

In a false manner.

valsheid

(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

valsmunter

A person who counterfeits.

valsspelen

(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.

valsspeler

Someone who cheats.

valsspelerij

Deceitful tricks; trickery; games. [from mid 19th c.]

valstrik

(countable, sometimes, _, noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.

valuta

Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.

vamp

(by extension) Any very sexually attractive person, who is therefore material for such a photograph.

vampier

(figurative, derogatory) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.

van

(intransitive, followed by to) To be part of, or the property of.

van boord gaan

(intransitive) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or aircraft.

van de ene dag op de andere

(figurative) In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.

van de ene kant naar de andere

From side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.

van de hand doen

(figurative) To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.

van de pot gerukt

Absurd, or contrary to common sense.

van de riem geven

(transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.

van de tafel vegen

(ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.

van de verkeerde kant

(of a person or other animal, formal, distancing, or, dated) Sexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to men or a woman who is attracted to women; gay. (Typically used in the sense of sole/exclusive attraction.)

van dienst

(engineering) The efficiency of an engine in work done per unit of fuel; particularly, the number of pounds of water which a steam pumping engine can raise one foot by burning one bushel or hundredweight of coal.

van een troop voorzien

(transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.

van franjes voorzien

(transitive) To decorate with fringe.

van ganser harte

In a wholehearted manner; without reserve; enthusiastically, unreservedly.

van harte

Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.

van hier

(archaic) From here, from this place, away.

van hoge kwaliteit

Of very good quality; superior.

van horen zeggen

Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.

van ingewanden ontdoen

A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.

van jou

That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.

van jullie

That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.

van kant maken

To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.

van Londen

The capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.

van Mars

Of or relating to the planet Mars, or (science fiction) its imagined inhabitants. [from 19th c.]

van mening verschillen

(intransitive) To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).

van mening zijn

(ditransitive) To decide that, to conclude that, to form the opinion that, to consider.

van mening zijn dat

(intransitive, transitive) To express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).

van nature

Inherently or by nature.

van onderen

Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

van onschatbare waarde

(by, extension) So precious as not to be obtainable or sold at any price. [from 1590s]

van op afstand

At a distance; disconnected.

van pas komend

Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.

van plan zijn

(ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

van Shakespeare

(literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.

van streek

(of a person, predicative, _, only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.

van tevoren

At an earlier or preceding time.

van toepassing

Related to a topic of discussion or consideration.

van vandaag op morgen

(figurative) In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.

Van Wie

A surname from Dutch.

van zijn stuk brengen

(transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]

vanaf

(idiomatic) At or by a specified time, with the implication that the said condition will be true from that time onward.

vanavond

During the evening of today.

Vancouver

A seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.

vandaag

On the current day or date.

vandaag de dag

In existence now; current or contemporary.

vandaal

A person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages things, especially other people's property.

vandaar

(formal) From there, from that place or from that time.

vandalisme

Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

vangarm

(zoology) An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.

vangen

(countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.

vanger

Someone or something that catches.

vangst

An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.

vangtand

A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.

vanille-

(of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.

vannacht

during the previous day’s nighttime; during the night before today (This entry is a translation hub.)

vanwege

(Irish, Newfoundland, usually, preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity.

vanzelfsprekend

Self-evident or unquestionable. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

vapenlös

(biology) Not having thorns, claws, or other dangerous appendages.

varen

(intransitive) To travel by boat.

varenblad

(botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

variabel

Able to vary or be varied.

variabele

Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.

variabele waarde

Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.

variabelen

(arithmetic) Having three variables.

variantie

(statistics) The second central moment in probability.

variatie

The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.

variëren

Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.

variëteit

All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

varken

Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

varkensbeest

Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark.

varkensleer

Leather made from the skin of a pig.

varkensstal

An enclosure where pigs are kept, either a building or part of one.

varkensvlees

(mostly, uncountable) The meat of a pig.

vasectomie

(surgery) The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization.

vaseline

Petroleum jelly.

vasodilatatie

Dilation or widening of the blood vessels.

vast

(idiomatic) Indicates that the speaker deems something highly unlikely.

vast-

(legal) Relating to immovable tangible property.

vastbenoemd zijn

A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.

vastberaden

(said of people and their conviction) Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.

vastberadenheid

Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.

vastbeslotenheid

(uncountable) Determination; will power.

vastbinden

To secure with rope, string, etc.

vasteland

The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.

vasten

(transitive, sciences) To cause (a person or animal) to abstain, especially from eating.

vastentijd

(Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

vastgebetonneerd

partially buried in concrete or planted in earth

vastgeroest

Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).

vastgoed

(US, Canada, Australia) Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground on which they are built.

vastgoedmakelaar

(UK, Ireland) A person or company that acts in the sale, purchase, lease or maintenance of land, property, real estate etc for another.

vastgrijpen

(legal) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.

vasthouden

(intransitive, figurative) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.

vasthoudend

Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.

vasthoudendheid

The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.