Associations to the word «Stuyvesant»

Dictionary definition

STUYVESANT, noun. The last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672).

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King