Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Norway or its people, language, or culture.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Norway.
- n. A person of Norwegian descent.
- n. Dano-Norwegian.
- n. New Norwegian.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to Norway; belonging to, found in, or derived from Norway.
- n. A native of Norway, a kingdom of Europe in the western part of the Scandinavian peninsula, which since 1814 has been united with Sweden under a common sovereign, but has a separate parliament and administration.
- n. The language of Norway. It is a Scandinavian language, nearly allied to Icelandic-Danish on the one side and to Danish on the other. Abbreviated Norwegian
- n. A kind of fishing-boat used on the Great Lakes. It is a huge unwieldy boat, 35 or 40 feet in length, with flaring bows, great sheer, and high sides, and is sloop-rigged. It is dry in all weathers, but is used only by the Scandinavian fishermen, most other fishermen objecting to the slowness of its motion and the great labor of rowing in a calm.
Wiktionary
- n. The language of Norway.
- n. A native of Norway.
- adj. Of or pertaining to Norway (the country)
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Norwegian people
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Norwegian language
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Norway, its inhabitants, or its language.
- n. A native of Norway.
- n. That branch of the Scandinavian language spoken in Norway.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a native or inhabitant of Norway
- adj. of or relating to Norway or its people or culture or language
- n. a Scandinavian language that is spoken in Norway
Etymologies
- From Medieval Latin Norwegia + -ian. (Wiktionary)
- From Medieval Latin Norvegia, Norway (influenced by Norway ), from Old Norse Norvegr : perhaps nordhr, north; see ner-1 in Indo-European roots + vegr, region; see wegh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For norwegian media students out there: The Norwegian board of research would like applications for journalistic/information projects concerned with the natural sciences.”
““Behind the scenes” supplying soccer-statistics is the norwegian website for Norwegian and International Soccer-statistics – NIFS.”
“News-teams from most of the norwegian media were outside the largest Norwegian hospital in Oslo, covering the collapse of Torbjørn Jagland, leader of the Labour Party.”
“NRK NORWEGIAN TELEVISION: You have been very critical of the Norwegian government before.”
“A NORWEGIAN journalist and his Afghan interpreter who were kidnapped last week in eastern Afghanistan have been released, Afghan and Norwegian officials said today.”
“If any of our 17 Norwegian readers (Heisann, Opphavsmann-venns!) wanted to use a black metal song and enter in Norwegian we would probably invent a special prize just for that person.”
“A Norwegian film (in Norwegian) with zombie Nazis.”
“So the Norwegians can't do this in Norwegian ... but howabout us Finns - do you accept entries either in Finnish or Swedish (Finland is bi-lingual country in case you didn't know)?”
“EDVARD MUNCH," Peter Watkins's 1974 docudrama about the Norwegian artist's life, in Norwegian with English subtitles. 2 p.m.,”
The Washington Post: D.C. community calendar, Oct. 7 to 14, 2010
“However the beds were more spacious in Norwegian but uncomfortable.”
Cruise Ship Comparison: Norwegian and Carnivale « Colleen Anderson
Lists
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Nationalities (Demonyms)
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
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cat breeds
cat breeds
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Available language editions of Scrabble
Note: Some language editions ignore diacritical marks (ie. Romanian) while others (ie. Icelandic) include them.
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for Norwegian.

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Mar 10, 2013