Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun new_amsterdam

1 sense of new amsterdam

Sense 1
New Amsterdam -- (a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York)
       INSTANCE OF=> colony, settlement -- (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris")