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Fort.

a village in De Wolden, Drenthe, Netherlands

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

name/fɔrt/
  1. a village in De Wolden, Drenthe, Netherlands

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  2. a district of Colombo, Sri Lanka

    neuter
Where this word comes from

From fort (“fort, fortress”). As a district of Colombo, from serving as the site of the Dutch East India Company's Fort Colombo. As a Dutch village, originally the name of a farm first attested as Het Fort in 1851–1855. See also Dutch Low Saxon Fört.

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