How to pronounce polder
American English pronunciation
POHL-dur
- IPA
- /ˈpoʊldɚ/
- Syllables
- POHL · dur (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What polder means
Low land won back from the sea and kept dry by dikes
In a sentence: Cows grazed on the green polder, far below the level of the sea behind the dike.
Where it comes from: It was borrowed from Dutch, but no one is sure where the older Dutch word came from.
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