Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Scandinavia or to its peoples, languages, or cultures.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.
- noun A person of Scandinavian ancestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, or the region which comprehends the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, with the adjacent islands, including Iceland, now an outlying possession of Denmark: as, Scandinavian literature; Scandinavian language.
- Of or pertaining to the languages of Scandinavia.
- noun A native of the region loosely called Scandinavia.
- noun The language of the Scandinavians: a general term for Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese, etc., and their dialects, or for their original. Abbreviated Scandinavian
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone from
Scandinavia . - adjective Of Scandinavia.
- adjective Of the
North Germanic family to whichSwedish ,Norwegian ,Danish ,Icelandic , andFaeroese belong.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland
- adjective of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures
- noun an inhabitant of Scandinavia
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Examples
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The term Scandinavian, being rather political than linguistic, is not a good one, but it has the advantage of being clear, and I have used it where the better one, Northern, might lead to confusion with Northern Scotch.
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The term Scandinavian is here used in the loose sense to embrace the peoples of the two peninsulas where dwell the Danes, the Norwegians, and the Swedes.
Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Samuel Peter Orth 1897
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The habit in Scandinavian countries of stealing half or more of people's money to give out for political purposes would seem to be a more important indicator of corruption than the taking of occasional bribes.
Measuring Corruption, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Physics and Chemistry in Scandinavian universities and at Karolinska
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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I thought that those interested in Scandinavian crime fiction might like this quote: .... his characters seem burdened by profound inner sadness.
Major distraction from crossword puzzle Maxine 2009
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Robert D. Putnam gave a talk on this issue as the Skytte Prize lecture, to be published in Scandinavian Political Studies in early 2007.
I Distrust Robert Putnam, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Have you considered that the low child poverty rates in Scandinavian countries might, at least in part, be the long-term result of their high quality education systems, rather than the other way around?
Matthew Yglesias » Jeb Bush Says We Could Learn From Swedish Schools 2009
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Tiina translated the book which started the English-speaking people's interest in Scandinavian crime fiction in a serious way - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, by Peter Hoeg, which I vividly recall reading many years ago.
Three highlights of CrimeFest Maxine 2009
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Have you considered that the low child poverty rates in Scandinavian countries might, at least in part, be the long-term result of their high quality education systems, rather than the other way around?
Matthew Yglesias » Jeb Bush Says We Could Learn From Swedish Schools 2009
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Tiina translated the book which started the English-speaking people's interest in Scandinavian crime fiction in a serious way - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, by Peter Hoeg, which I vividly recall reading many years ago.
Three highlights of CrimeFest Maxine 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word Scandinavian
JM was fascinated by the Norwegian robot device that analyses birds – it Scandinavian.
June 19, 2011