rustplaats

Definitions of rustplaats
  1. noun
    an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling
    synonyms: pleisterplaats, relais, wegrestaurant
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    type of:
    herberg, logement
    a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
  2. noun
    any port where a ship stops except its home port
    synonyms: aanloophaven, pleisterplaats, relais
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    type of:
    haven, havenkant, havenplaats, havenstad, thuishaven, zeehaven
    a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
  3. noun
    a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
    synonyms: bed, bodemlaag, slaapgelegenheid, slaapplaats
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    types:
    kolenader, kolenlaag
    a seam of coal
    type of:
    aardlaag, grondlaag
    one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
  4. noun
    a plot of ground in which plants are growing
    synonyms: griend, griendland, slaapgelegenheid, slaapplaats
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    bloembed, bloemperk, plantenbed
    a bed in which flowers are growing
    brandhaard, broeibed, stookbak, vuurhaard, vuurpoel
    a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants
    voedingsbodem, zaadbed, zaaibed
    a bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting
    rozenbed
    a flower bed in which roses are growing
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