What does SCANDINAVIAN mean?

Definitions for SCANDINAVIAN
ˌskæn dəˈneɪ vi ənscan·di·na·vian

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Scandinavian, Norse, Northmannoun

    an inhabitant of Scandinavia

  2. Scandinavian, Scandinavian language, Nordic, Norse, North Germanic, North Germanic languageadjective

    the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland

  3. Scandinavian, Norseadjective

    of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures

    "Norse sagas"; "Norse nomads"

Wiktionary

  1. Scandinaviannoun

    Someone from Scandinavia.

  2. Scandinavianadjective

    Of Scandinavia.

  3. Scandinavianadjective

    (Of a language) Of the North Germanic family to which Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.

Wikipedia

  1. Scandinavian

    A Scandinavian is a resident of Scandinavia or something associated with the region, including:

ChatGPT

  1. scandinavian

    Scandinavian generally refers to anything pertaining to the region of Scandinavia, which traditionally includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It can refer to individuals from these countries, their languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish), and their shared history, culture, and traditions. It may also encompass the broader Nordic countries, including Finland, Iceland, and their associated territories.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scandinavianadjective

    of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

  2. Scandinaviannoun

    a native or inhabitant of Scandinavia

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Scandinavian

    skan-di-nā′vi-an, adj. of Scandinavia, the peninsula divided into Norway and Sweden, but, in a historical sense, applying also to Denmark and Iceland.—n. a native of Scandinavia. [L. Scandinavia, Scandia.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SCANDINAVIAN in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SCANDINAVIAN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of SCANDINAVIAN in a Sentence

  1. Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary:

    Our focus will be on one of the two major Scandinavian airlines, we think one or the other of those are the most likely to fail this winter.

  2. Met Office:

    It's developing out in the Atlantic at present, [ and ] it's heading directly for the UK so to speak, it will clear out of the UK over the course of Friday and travel towards Denmark and the Scandinavian countries.

  3. Valeria Bordone:

    The intermediate model is represented by most of the western European countries and the Czech Republic, where grandparents are strongly involved in child care but with a lower frequency than in the Mediterranean model and higher than in the Scandinavian countries, in these countries, characterized by levels of policy support that are in between the other two models, grandparental child care is complementary to public policies rather than substituting them.

  4. Bohuslav Ilavsky:

    I have always leaned left, admired Scandinavian countries, voted for Smer in last election - but I won't support them this time, fico's welfare packages are pure populism, but he hasn't delivered on his promises to make real change.

  5. Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela:

    We suspected that there was a chronology to the northern Scandinavian gene pool, and it did indeed prove that a more recent influx of Uralic ancestry into Scandinavia define much of the northern gene pool, but if it is recent, it is comparatively so. For example, we know that this Uralic ancestry was present in northern Scandinavia as early as during the late Viking period.

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