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Utrecht.

A city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands.

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Meaning & usage

name/ˈjuˌtɹɛkt/General-American/ˈjuˌtɹɛxt/General-American/juːˈtɹɛxt/Received-Pronunciation
  1. A city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands.

    The Treaty of Utrecht (11 April 1713) recognized Anne as the rightful queen of England and yielded St Kitts and much of Canada to the English.
  2. A province of the Netherlands.

Where this word comes from

From Dutch Utrecht, from Middle Dutch and Old Dutch variants of ūt (“out, outside”) + Latin Trāiectum ad Rhēnum (“Crossing-on-the-Rhine”), the Roman fort at the location, from trāicere (“to cross, to send across”), from trāns- (“trans-: through, across”) + iacere (“to throw”).

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