Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Sweden, the Swedes, or their culture or language.
- n. The North Germanic language of Sweden and parts of Finland.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
- An iron-pointed stake: same as palisade, 2. Compare swine's-feather.
- n. The language of the Swedes: a Scandinavian dialect, akin to Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic.
Wiktionary
- n. The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.
- adj. Of or pertaining to Sweden.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Swedish language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
- n. The language of Swedes.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sweden or its people or culture or language
- n. a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland
Examples
“Ekovaruhuset, which translates to ‘House of Organic’ in Swedish, is an eco-boutique founded by Johanna Hofring.”
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“The bullets are the same diameter, but the Swedish is a much milder cartriddge.”
“It's time for the annual MoCCA festival and this year Top Shelf Comics are launching what they call The Swedish Invasion.”
““We never do a sale,” Mr. Venanzi said from what he called the Swedish, neo-classical boutique he opened three years ago.”
“Until 1932, government spending had been kept below 10% of GDP in Sweden, but the Social Democrats, under their leader Per Albin Hansson, wanted to change this and remake Sweden into a "folkhem" ( "people's home"), a term Swedish Social Democrats adopted from the Fascists in Italy.”
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“Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding sealed a 1. 8-billion-dollar deal on Sunday to buy Volvo Cars as the Chinese company unleashed its global ambitions with what it called a Swedish”
“Its membership now sits at around 18,000, which makes it a respectable size in Swedish politics.”
“Mathias sez, "Nasty Old People is the first feature film in Swedish history to be released under a Creative Commons license.”
“Kreuger's holding company, Kreuger & Toll, routinely paid 25-percent dividends based on its investments in Swedish filmmaking, real estate and banking, and in Kreuger's primary business, the Swedish Match Corporation, which produced two-thirds of the world's safety matches.”
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