koud

Meaning

1. cold (temperature)
2. cold (unfriendly)
3. (rare) bad, insignificant

Concepts

cold

🥶

chilly

frigid

coldly

chill

bleak

icy

marmoreal

nippy

passionless

stony

algid

clay-cold

coldness

cool

🆒

frosty

glacial

icily

Synonyms

koel

🥶

kil

koele

koude

afstandelijk

fris

vochtig

frisse

klam

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɑu̯t/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch cout, from Old Dutch *kalt, from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel-.

Sentences

Het is vreemd dat het al zo koud is in oktober .

It's strange that it's already so cold in October.

De friet was onderweg naar huis koud geworden .

The fries had become cold on the way home.

Het was koud in de berghut en de twee dekens waren nauwelijks voldoende om ons warm te houden .

It was cold in the cabin and the two blankets were barely enough to keep us warm.