How do you use Diemen in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Diemen in a sentence
Diemen meaning
A village and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
Using Diemen
- The main meaning on this page is: A village and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
- In the example corpus, diemen often appears in combinations such as: van diemen, in diemen.
Context around Diemen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 14 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Diemen
- In this selection, "diemen" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, van, victoria and city stand out and add context to how "diemen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include to van diemen s land and from van diemen s land. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "diemen" sits close to words such as aaj, aal and aalto, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with diemen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The name was later shortened to Van Diemen's Land by the British. (13 words)
Bishop Robert Willson visited Norfolk Island from Van Diemen's Land on three occasions. (14 words)
Convicts completing their sentences or earning their ticket-of-leave often promptly left Van Diemen's Land. (17 words)
Tensions sometimes ran high between the settlers and the "Vandemonians" as they were termed, particularly during the Victorian gold rush when a flood of settlers from Van Diemen's Land rushed to the Victorian gold fields. (36 words)
He spent a few days in Tasmania where he made contact with the island's indigenous people (the first European to have done so), and in Blackmans Bay claimed Van Diemen's Land for France. (35 words)
On the first occasion, in 1773, Furneaux explored a great part of the south and east coasts of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania ), and made the earliest British chart of the same. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
The song includes a reference to Van Diemen's land "subtracting till my fingers dropped; into Van Diemen's Land".
Outgoing president Helen van Diemen, the A62 Inner Wheel District chairman Dianne Allen and incoming president Deb James.
Dr Annaliese van Diemen, Victoria's Deputy Chief Health Officer, said the source of the public housing cluster was not yet known.
She is currently being quarantined in a house in Diemen because her home in Amsterdam is being renovated," the city of Amsterdam said in a statement Friday evening.
The closures complied with directives from Deputy Chief Health Officer Dr Annaliese van Diemen, City Hall announced today.
The state’s Deputy Chief Health Officer Dr Annaliese van Diemen said at least 23 of today’s cases 108 new cases had been linked to the known cluster.
What exactly they are looking for, and why they are looking in Diemen, a police spokesperson could not say to ANP.
Abel Tasman was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania ) and New Zealand, and to sight the Fiji islands.
Bishop Robert Willson visited Norfolk Island from Van Diemen's Land on three occasions.
Convicts completing their sentences or earning their ticket-of-leave often promptly left Van Diemen's Land.
He spent a few days in Tasmania where he made contact with the island's indigenous people (the first European to have done so), and in Blackmans Bay claimed Van Diemen's Land for France.
In 1798, George Bass and Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Van Diemen's Land, proving that it was an island.
In total, some 75,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land, or about 40% of all convicts sent to Australia.
It was abandoned because transportation to Van Diemen's Land had ceased in 1853 and was replaced by penal servitude in the United Kingdom.
On the first occasion, in 1773, Furneaux explored a great part of the south and east coasts of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania ), and made the earliest British chart of the same.
Tensions sometimes ran high between the settlers and the "Vandemonians" as they were termed, particularly during the Victorian gold rush when a flood of settlers from Van Diemen's Land rushed to the Victorian gold fields.
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce and Van Diemen's Land are both set during an episode of Tasmania's convict history.
The name was later shortened to Van Diemen's Land by the British.
This removed the unsavoury criminal connotations with the name Van Diemen's Land, (and the " demon " connotation) while honouring Abel Tasman, the first European to find the island.
Two of the main characters in Cortenay's novel are transported Van Diemen's Land as convicts and another travels there, where around half of the novel takes place.
Common combinations with diemen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- van diemen 4×
- in diemen 2×