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New Amsterdam

[ am-ster-dam ]

noun

  1. a former Dutch town on Manhattan Island: the capital of New Netherland; renamed New York by the British in 1664.
  2. a city in NE Guyana, on the Berbice River.


New Amsterdam

noun

  1. the Dutch settlement established on Manhattan (1624鈥26); capital of New Netherland; captured by the English and renamed New York in 1664
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

New Amsterdam

  1. A city founded by Dutch settlers in the seventeenth century on the present site of New York City .
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An early governor of the Dutch colony surrounding New Amsterdam bought Manhattan Island, the present center of New York City, from the Native Americans for twenty-four dollars' worth of jewelry.
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Under their agreement, the city of New Amsterdam would keep its mixed population and the Dutch features of capitalism and relative tolerance, but the settlement and its inhabitants would transfer to English rule.

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鈥淚 started at the New Amsterdam Theatre, when the 鈥楲ion King鈥 was there.

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So, when the Dutch Consulate in New York approached Stonefish to ask if he鈥檇 help commemorate the anniversary of the 1624 establishment of the first Dutch settler colony, New Amsterdam, he was taken aback.

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The teenagers said there was a fully stocked bar with New Amsterdam vodka and Malibu rum, with the 亚洲网紅露点 of beer pong using hard liquor instead.

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These concerts capitalized on Wild Up鈥檚 devoted attention to the Eastman catalog, which so far has included two portrait albums released on the New Amsterdam label.

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