Dutch–English dictionary

gouwe ouwe

(informal) A song or record from a previous era.

gozer

(informal, chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, _) A male person.

graad

(education) A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) [from 14th c.]

graaf

The male ruler of a county.

graafmachine

A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.Excavator

graafschap

(chiefly, historical) An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially (England) , a county having a name ending in -shire.

graag

In a glad manner; happily.

graag gedaan

A polite reaction to receiving thanks, meaning that the speaker enjoyed helping the listener.

graag gezien

Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.

graag hebben

To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.

graag ontvangen

To accept something willingly or gladly.

graag zien

To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.

graagte

A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.] (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)

graai

A quick grab or catch.

graan

(Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.

graankorrel

(countable) A single seed of grass food crops.

graanschuur

A granary; a store of grain.

graat

A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

grabbelen

(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

gracht

An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

gracieus

Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.

graf

(narrowly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

grafdelver

A person employed to dig graves.

grafeem

(Unicode) A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system.

graffiti

(chiefly, uncountable) Drawings or words drawn on a surface in a public place, usually made without authorization.

grafheuvel

A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

grafiek

(mathematics) A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m, y)\in\R^{m+1}, where y=f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m) for a given function f: \R^m\rightarrow\R. See also w:Graph of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

grafiet

An allotrope of carbon, consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes stacked loosely, that is used as a dry lubricant, in "lead" pencils, and as a moderator in some nuclear reactors.

grafisch

Forming adjectives pertaining to writing (of a type specified by the first element).

grafkelder

A burial vault.

grafrede

An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.

grafrover

One who robs graves or tombs in order to sell the contents for profit.

grafschrift

An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.

grafsteen

A grave marker, a stone slab or similar object marking a person's grave.

grafterp

A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

graftombe

A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

gram

A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.

grammofoonplaat

Ellipsis of phonograph record (“a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph”).

gramschap

(uncountable, formal) Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.

granaat

(mineral) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.

granaatscherven

(military) Any shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb, or landmine.

grand écart

(dance, cheerleading, gymnastics) A maneuver in which the legs are extended straight out and perpendicular to the body, either to the sides or in front and behind.

grande

A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal. [from 1590s]

grandeur

Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.

grandieus

Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.

grandioos

Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).

graniet

(rock) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.

grap

(informal) A joke.

grapjas

Someone or something who fools.

grappa

(uncountable) An Italian grape-based spirit of between 80 and 100 proof, made from the distillation of pomace.

grappen

(intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.

grappend

Humorous, amusing or joking.

grappenmaken

(intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.

grappig

Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining. [from 16th c.]

gras

(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

grasklokje

Scottish bluebell (harebell) (Campanula rotundifolia)

grasland

An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.

grasmaaier

A device used for cutting grass to a chosen height, typically of landscaped lawns of residences or institutions.

grasmaaimachine

A device used for cutting grass to a chosen height, typically of landscaped lawns of residences or institutions.

grasmaand

The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May.

grasmus

Sylvia communis, an Old World warbler, now sometimes Mezophilus communis or Curruca communis.

grasparkiet

A species of small green parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, native to inland Australia; a common cagebird throughout the world and bred in many colour varieties.

grasperk

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

graspol

A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.

grasveld

(uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.

graszode

(uncountable) Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.

gratie

(uncountable) Elegant movement; elegance of movement; balance or poise.

gratificatie

A gratuity; a reward.

gratis

Without paying; free.

graupel

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

grauw

Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.

grauwen

(transitive) To express (something) by growling.

graven

(intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole.

graver

One who digs.

graveren

(transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).

gravin

A woman holding the rank of count or earl in her own right; a female holder of an earldom.

gravitatie

(physics) The fundamental force of attraction that exists between all matter in the universe, caused by the curvature of spacetime caused by matter. It is the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, and possesses a gauge boson known as the graviton.

gravitationeel

Pertaining to, or caused by, gravity or gravitation.

graviton

(particle) A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.

gravure

(printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.

grazen

(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

greep

A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.

greep krijgen op

(gerund of grapple) An act in which something is grappled or grappled with.

Greet

A en given name.

Greetje

A en given name.

gregarieus

(of a person) Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.

Gregoor

A en given name.

gregoriaans

Of or relating to a person named Gregory, especially any of the popes of that name.

gregoriaanse

Of or relating to a person named Gregory, especially any of the popes of that name.

Gregorius

A en given name.

grein

(countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including

greintje

(figuratively) A small or trace amount.

Grenada

An island and country in the Caribbean.

grendel

A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.

grens

The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.

grenslijn

(countable) A boundary or accepted division; a border.

grensmark

(now, _, archaic, historical, often plural) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.

grensovergang

A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.

grensoverschrijdend

Taking place across a border.

grensverleggend

Innovative; new, different; doing something that has never been done before.

grenzeloos

Without bounds, unbounded.

grenzen

(intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

grenzen aan

(transitive, figurative) To be almost like some other thing; to verge on.

greppel

A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

gretig

Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.

grid

(motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.

Griek

(countable) A person from Greece or of Greek descent.

Griekenland

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Hellenic Republic. Capital and largest city: Athens.

Grieks

Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.

Griekse

Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.

Griekse ij

The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.

griep

(disease) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.

Griet

A en given name.

Grietje

A fictional character in the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.

grieven

(legal) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based.

grievend

(informal, often humorous) Snide and sarcastic; usually out of irritation.

griezel

(informal, pejorative) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.

griezelig

(informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.

griffel

A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. [from 16th c.]

griffier

An official keeper or recorder of records.

griffioen

A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle.

grijmig

Stained or covered with grime.

grijns

A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.

grijnslach

An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.

grijnzen

(intransitive) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.

grijpen

(rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.

grijpend

Engrossing, that sustains someone's interest. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]

grijpstuiver

Chiefly in on a shoestring: very little money; a tight budget.

grijs

Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.

grijs-bruin

A brownish grey colour.

grijsbruin

Of a brownish grey colour.

grijze junco

Junco hyemalis, a passerine bird in the passerine family Passerellidae.

grijzen

(demography, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

gril

(mostly, in plural) A quirk, idiosyncrasy, frailty, or mannerism; an unusual habit that is slightly strange or silly.

grill

A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

grillen

(transitive, intransitive) To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.

grillig

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

grilligheid

(uncountable) The state of being whimsical.

grillrooster

An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals. [from 14th c.]

grimas

A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.

grimassen

(intransitive) To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.

grimlachen

(intransitive) To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.

grimmig

Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.

grind

(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.

grinniken

To laugh quietly or inwardly.

grip

(sometimes, figurative) Grip.

grissen

(transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.

gritsel

(agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.

groef

A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape.

groei

An increase in size, number, value, or strength.