landdag

From land (“country, land”) +‎ dag (“assembly, meeting (archaic)”).

landdag c (singular definite landdagen, plural indefinite landdage)

1. Landtag

From Middle Dutch lantdach, equivalent to land (“territory”) +‎ dag (“diet, assembly”). Cognate of German Landtag, Danish landdag. The sense "national convention" can also be analysed as land (“country”) +‎ dag (“day”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑn(t)dɑx/

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• Hyphenation: land‧dag

landdag m (plural landdagen)

1. (chiefly historical) diet (a formal deliberative assembly)
   1. (historical) the provincial assembly of the provinces of Friesland, Drenthe, Overijssel, and Gelderland during the Dutch Republic [1588–1795]

      Synonym: Staten

   2. Landtag (the state parliament of a federal state in some German-speaking countries)
2. a national convention or conference of a membership-based organisation [from 20th c.]