Dutch–English dictionary

wijfje

One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.

wijfjeseend

Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.

wijfjeskat

An adult female cat capable of breeding.

wijfjesvos

A female fox.

wijk

The residential area near one's home.

wijlen

(not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)

wijn

Affected by the drinking of wine.

wijn drinken

(intransitive) To drink wine.

wijn serveren

(transitive) To entertain (someone) with wine.

wijnachtig

Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.

wijnberg

A grape plantation, especially one used in the production of wine.

wijngaard

A grape plantation, especially one used in the production of wine.

wijnjaar

Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.

wijnkelder

A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.

wijnkelner

The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.

wijnmakerij

A place where wine is made, or a company that makes wine.

wijnoogst

The year or place in which something is produced.

wijnproeverij

(countable) An event for the purpose of tasting and evaluating wine.

wijnrank

The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.

wijnruit

Ruta graveolens

wijnstok

The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.

wijs

(grammar) A type of the relationship of a verb with reality and intent.

wijselijk

In a wise manner; using good judgement.

wijsgerig

Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.

wijsheid

The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful. [from 16th c.]

wijsneus

(informal, chiefly, British) A person who annoyingly tries too hard to impress with their cleverness.

wijsvinger

(human, _, anatomy) The index finger: the first finger next to the thumb.

wijten

(transitive) To attribute (a cause or characteristic) to someone or something.

wijting

A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).

wijze

Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything.

wijze van spreken

A colloquialism or idiom.

wijzen

(intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.

wijzen op

(transitive) To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

wijzen uit het oosten

(Christianity) Chiefly preceded by the (three): the wise men who visited and gave gifts to the baby Jesus at the Epiphany (traditionally considered to be three in number and sometimes named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior, but the Bible does not state how many there were or their names).

wijzend

That which directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide.

wijzigen

To change a text, or a document.

wijziging

(countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.

wiki

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.

Wikipedia

A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

WikiWoordenboek

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

wikkel

(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.

wikkelen

To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth.

wikken

To test the weight of (something) by lifting.

Wiktionary

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

Wil

A en given name

wild

Of an animal, wild but descended from domestic or captive ancestors; thus, in the wild, although not necessarily of the wild type.

wild dier

(often, _, collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.

wild gevogelte

Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.

wild kattenkruid

Nepeta cataria and Nepeta grandiflora (and perhaps other species), which are well-known for causing an apparently harmless pheromone-based intoxication among certain cats.

wilde

(derogatory) Someone from a developing country or backward culture.

wilde dieren

(often, attributive) undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.

wilde eend

(countable) Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

wilde gagel

A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.

wilde hyacint

Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.

wilde lijsterbes

Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.

wilde marjolein

The leaves of these plants used in flavouring food.

wilde planten en dieren

(often, attributive) undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.

wilde vijgenboom

(originally) A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig, found in Egypt and Syria.

wildebras

A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner.

wildernis

(uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

wildleven

(often, attributive) undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.

wildlife

(often, attributive) undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.

wildstropen

Illegal procurement of protected wildlife such as fish, game, logging, or plant collecting.

wildstroperij

Illegal procurement of protected wildlife such as fish, game, logging, or plant collecting.

wildwestfilm

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wildwestverhaal

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wildwissel

(ecology) A type of wildlife crossing in the form of a bridge or tunnel, usually covered with foliage and turf, which animals may use to cross roads without the risk of being hit by vehicles; a wildlife viaduct. [from late 20th c.]

Wilfred

A en given name, popular in the U.K. in the early twentieth century.

wilg

The wood of these trees.

Wilhelmina

A en given name.

wille

purpose or end; reason

willekeurig

(usually, of a decision) Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.

willekeurigheid

The quality or state of being arbitrary; the extent to which something is arbitrary.

Willem

A en given name popular since the Norman Conquest.

Willems

An Irish surname originating as a patronymic, an adopted anglicization of Mac Uilliam (McWilliam).

Willemse

An Irish surname originating as a patronymic, an adopted anglicization of Mac Uilliam (McWilliam).

Willemsen

An Irish surname originating as a patronymic, an adopted anglicization of Mac Uilliam (McWilliam).

willen

(transitive) To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention. [from 8th c.]

willen zeggen

(transitive) Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.

willig

Willing to do what pleases others; obliging; agreeable.

wilskracht

(uncountable) Determination; will power.

wilszwakte

(archaic, rare) Lack of self-control; excess, intemperance; also, irregular or unruly behaviour.

Wim

A en given name

wimpel

A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition.

wimper

(anatomy, dermatology) One of the hairs which grows along the edge of eyelids.

wind

(transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.

windas

A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).

windbuil

(dated) A vain, gaudy person; someone who is shallow or superficial. [from 16th c.]

winde

black bindweed (Fallopia convolvulus).

winden

(uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.

windhond

A lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing.

windhoos

A windstorm of limited extent, such as a tornado, dust devil, or waterspout, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air.

winding

A single loop of a coil.

windjack

A thin outer coat designed to resist wind chill and light rain.

windjammer

(nautical) A sailing ship; especially a large, iron-hulled, square-rigged ship with three or more masts.

windmolen

The building or structure containing such machinery.

windmolentje

An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.

windstil

(nautical, of a sailing ship) Unable to move due to lack of wind.

windstilte

(meteorology) The absense of wind; a period of time without wind.

windstoot

A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).

windvlaag

A strong, abrupt rush of wind.

windwaarts

Towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing.

winkel

An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.

winkelcentrum

An enclosed shopping centre. [from 20th c.]

winkeldief

A person who shoplifts, one who steals from shops.

winkeldiefstal

(uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business.

winkelen

(intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.

winkelhaak

A tool used to measure out right angles.

winkelier

One who runs a shop, either the owner or manager.

winkelpassage

(architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.

winnaar

One who has won or often wins.

winnares

One who has won or often wins.

winnen

(transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. [from 14th c.]

winst

The act of gaining; acquisition.

winter

Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as spanning the months of December, January, and February in temperate and polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.

winter-radijs

An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.

winterhagel

(uncountable) A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake.

winterkoninkje

Troglodytes troglodytes

winterslaap

(biology, sleep) A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.

wintertijd

The season of winter, between autumn and spring.

wip

A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

wippen

(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.

wipwap

A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

wipwappen

(intransitive) To use a seesaw.

wirwar

A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

wisent

The wisent, species Bos bonasus, Europe's heaviest land animal.

wiskunde

An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.

wiskundig

Of, or relating to mathematics

wiskundige

An expert on mathematics; someone who studies mathematics.

wispelturig

Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.

wispelturigheid

The quality of being fickle.

wissel

(countable) A replacement.

wisselbalg

(European folklore, also, figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.

wisselen

(transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

wisselend

Likely to vary.

wisselgeld

(uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.

wisselkind

(European folklore, also, figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.

wisselslag

(swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. [from 20th c.]

wisselspanning

(electricity) Initialism of alternating current (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current).

wisselstroom

(electricity) Initialism of alternating current (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current).

wisselstroomgenerator

(electrical engineering) An electric generator which produces alternating current through mechanical means.

wisselvallig

Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms.

wisselwerking

The situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce a new effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence.

wissen

(transitive, computing) To remove data.

wit

White or grey with age.

Wit-Rusland

A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Belarus. Capital and largest city: Minsk.

witgloeiend

Shining very brightly.

witheet

Emitting light as a result of being heated.

witheid

(statistics, of a stochastic process) The quality of being white noise.

witheriet

(mineral) A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO3