Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital and largest town of Greenland, in the southwest part of the island on an inlet of the Labrador Sea. The town was founded in 1721 by a Norwegian missionary.
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- proper noun The capital city of the self-governing territory of
Greenland .
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Examples
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BP has already withdrawn from a planned new licensing round off Greenland rather than risk being banned by the government in Nuuk.
Shetland deepwater wells likely to be approved in face of Greenpeace action Terry Macalister 2010
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The tourist blurb in my hotel calls Nuuk "tiny," but also boasts of a "sprawling metropolis."
NPR Topics: News 2011
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I've always been curious about Godthab - Greenland's capital, in fact, also known as Nuuk - but my impromptu trip is not mere tourism.
Alanat News 2009
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I've always been curious about Godthab - Greenland's capital, in fact, also known as Nuuk - but my impromptu trip is not mere tourism.
Alanat News 2009
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Young speakers of Vietnamese use fun in Global English phrases like “have fun with game,” and Greenlandic teenagers in Nuuk seek fun by break-dancing.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Young speakers of Vietnamese use fun in Global English phrases like “have fun with game,” and Greenlandic teenagers in Nuuk seek fun by break-dancing.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The buzz around BIG's residential projects may soon spread to the firm's ambitious, far-flung cultural projects, including Greenland's National Gallery of Art, located in the island's capital Nuuk, and Kazakhstan's new National Library in Astana.
Bjarke Ingels's BIG Ambitions J. S. Marcus 2011
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It has a university in the capital city of Nuuk, and a fully functioning primary and secondary school system in which the operating language is Greenlandic.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent participation in an Arctic Council meeting—a first—in Nuuk, Greenland was a good start.
Time to Take Alaska Out of the Icebox Scott Borgerson 2011
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Police spokesman Morten Nielsen said those arrested will be taken to Nuuk, the semiautonomous Danish territory's capital, and kept in detention.
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