poldernoun [ C ]
/ˈpɒl.dər//ˈpoʊl.dɚ/specializedan area of low land that was once under the sea but that has been separated from it by dykes (= walls or channels built to prevent water covering an area):
In the Netherlands, millions of people live in drained polders below sea level.
More than 2500 km of dykes have been constructed to protect the Dutch polders from flooding.
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- Powerful pumps keep the polders from flooding.
- A polder is a large area of land containing farms and villages encircled by dykes.
- The polder system could isolate the flooding to a smaller area.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Geography: areas of land in general
- area
- circuit
- country
- curtilage
- dry land
- enclosure
- fiefdom
- interfluve
- interior
- lot
- orography
- parcel
- patch
- plot
- pocket handkerchief
- poramboke
- region
- sweep
- territory
- tract
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