Waterlandian
English
Alternative forms
- Waterlander
Etymology
Waterland + -ian, after a district in northern Holland.
Noun
Waterlandian (plural Waterlandians)
- (historical) One of a group of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Waterlandian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)