Dutch–English dictionary

xenofobie

A fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

xenofobisch

Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.

xenofoob

One who hates or fears strangers or foreigners.

xenon

The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology.

xi

The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.

xylofoon

(percussion instrument) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

yam

Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

yamplant

Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

yamswortel

Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

Yap

An island in the Caroline Islands of western Micronesia.

yes

Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc.

yeti

(cryptozoology, often, capitalized) A humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas.

yoga

Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind.

yoghurt

A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.

yolo

(slang) Acronym of you only live once, i.e. expressing the view that one should make the most of the present moment.

YouTube

A video-sharing website.

ypsilon

The twentieth letter of Classical and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient Greek.

ysteem

Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.

yuan

(currencies) The basic unit of money in China.

yup

(informal, sometimes derogatory, dated) A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.

yuppie

(informal, sometimes derogatory, dated) A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.

yurt

A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).

z.o.z.

Initialism of please turn over (written at the end of the text on a page to say that it continues overleaf).

z.s.m.

Initialism of as soon as possible.

zaad

(uncountable) Semen.

zaag

A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

zaagsel

The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.

zaaien

(agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

zaailing

(botany) A young plant grown from seed.

zaak

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

zaal

A large room for public meetings or performances.

zabaglione

A custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine.

zabberen

(intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.

Zacharias

A en given name, English vernacular form of Zacharias, Zachariah and Zechariah.

zacht

Soft, sticky and viscous.

zachtaardig

In a gentle manner; to a gentle degree.

zachte hagel

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

zachter worden

(dated, intransitive, of substance) To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield, for example by dissolving or melting

zachtjes

In a gentle manner; to a gentle degree.

zachtjes koken

(transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.

zachtmoedig

Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.

zachtzinnig

Gentle; kind; sympathetic.

zadel

A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.

zadelstuk

A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.

zagen

(intransitive, slang) To complain.

zager

One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.

Zagreb

The capital and largest city of Croatia.

Zaïre

(historical) Former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a country in Central Africa; used from 1971–1997.

zak

(countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.

zakdoek

A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.

zakelijk

Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.

zakelijkheid

The state of being objective, just, unbiased, and not influenced by irrational emotions or personal prejudices.

zaken

(countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.

zakencijfer

(accounting) The total sales; turnover.

zakenleven

(countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.

zakenman

A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

zakenvrouw

A woman involved in business.

zakje

A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.

zakken

(ambitransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.

zakkenroller

A thief who steals from others' purses or pockets in public.

zaklamp

(Canada, US, Philippines) A battery-powered hand-held light source.

zaklantaarn

(Canada, US, Philippines) A battery-powered hand-held light source.

zakrat

A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).

zakrekenmachine

A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; sometimes, an electronic one specifically.

zalf

(medicine) A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)

zalig

(Roman Catholicism) Having been recognized and declared, by the church, that a deceased has entered heaven; having attained this step in the process of canonization.

Zalig zijn de onwetenden

A lack of knowledge or awareness about certain facts or situations results in happiness or reduced anxiety.

zaligheid

The condition or state of being blessed; holy.

zaligmaking

The act of redeeming or something redeemed.

zalm

A meal or dish made from this fish.

zalmkleur

(plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

zalmkleurig

Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

zalmkleurige

Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

Zambia

A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zambia. Formerly called Northern Rhodesia.

zand

(uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.

zandbank

(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.

zandcementvloer

A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.

zanderig

Covered with sand.

zandhaas

(India) An infantryman; a soldier.

zandkleurig

Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.

zandkleurige

Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.

zandkoekje

A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.

zandloper

Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wader that breeds in a wide range, from southern Europe to Japan and in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern United States and the Caribbean, but not including Kent.

zandsteen

A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.

zandstorm

A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.

zang

The act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing.

zanger

A person who sings, often professionally.

zangeres

A person who sings, often professionally.

zangvogel

Any bird of the order Passeriformes, which comprises more than half of all bird species.

zaniken

(ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.

Zanzibar

An island region of Tanzania in the Indian Ocean.

zappen

To use a remote control to repeatedly change channels on a television.

zat

Drunk

zaterdag

(US, Canada, informal in UK) On Saturday.

zatlap

(colloquial) One who drinks alcohol habitually; a drunkard.

zavel

(uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.

zavelboom

The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.

ze

(indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).

zebrapad

(US) A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street.

zedelijk

Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.

zedig

(especially of behavior or clothing) Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.

zedigheid

The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.

zee

The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.

zee-engte

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

zeebanket

Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.

zeebeschuit

(nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.

zeebodem

The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean.

zeebonk

A sailor accustomed to the sea.

zeedijk

A coastal defence in the form of a wall or an embankment.

zeeduiker

(US, Canada) Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.

zeeduivel

Any fish of the bony fish order Lophiiformes, which have an outgrowth they wiggle to lure and catch their prey.

zeeëngte

(geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.

zeef

A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

zeegans

(North American) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.

zeehaven

A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.

zeehond

Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae characterized by lacking external ear flaps; true seals.

zeekaak

(nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.

zeekant

The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. [from 14th c.]

zeekat

Any squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened.

zeekoe

Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of the genus Trichechus, found in tropical regions.

zeekust

The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. [from 14th c.]

Zeeland

A province of the Netherlands.

zeem

Chamois leather.

zeemacht

(countable) A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.

zeemacht-

(military) Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.

zeeman

(slang) A member of a navy; a sailor; a fisherman.

zeemeerman

A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.

zeemeermin

A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.

zeemlap

A cloth made of this leather.

zeemleer

Chamois leather.

zeemvel

A cloth made of this leather.

zeemzoet

Excessively sweet.

zeeoor

(North America, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl. [mid 19th c.]

zeep

(countable, uncountable, informal, by extension, mineral) Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.

zeepok

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus.

zeepsop

(countable, uncountable) The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.

zeer

(colloquial) Inflamed, like a sore.

zeer doen

(intransitive, stative) To be painful.

zeer ouderwets

Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated.

zeer productief zijn

(intransitive) To be full to overflowing; to bristle. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

zeer tevreden

(UK, Ireland, informal) Very pleased or satisfied; delighted.

zeer vermogend

Excessively or extremely large or wealthy.

zeereis

A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.

zeerob

A sailor accustomed to the sea.

zeerot

(slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).

zeeroven

(transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.

zeerover

(crime) A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.

zeeroverij

(crime, nautical) Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.

zeerug

(oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.

zeeschuim

A foam created by the agitation of seawater.