What does Swedish mean?

Definitions for Swedish
ˈswi dɪʃswedish

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Swedish.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Swedishadjective

    a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland

  2. Swedishadjective

    of or relating to or characteristic of Sweden or its people or culture or language

    "the Swedish King"; "Swedish punch"; "Swedish umlauts"

Wiktionary

  1. Swedishadjective

    Of or pertaining to Sweden.

  2. Swedishadjective

    Of or pertaining to the Swedish language.

  3. Swedishnoun

    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.

ChatGPT

  1. swedish

    Swedish refers to anything that originates from, is related or characteristic to Sweden. It can refer to Swedish people, the Swedish language, culture, cuisine, or anything pertains to the country of Sweden located in Northern Europe.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Swedishadjective

    of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants

  2. Swedishnoun

    the language of Swedes

  3. Etymology: [Cf. G. schwedisch, Sw. svensk.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SWEDISH

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Swedish is ranked #123796 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Swedish surname appeared 139 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Swedish.

    86.3% or 120 total occurrences were White.
    11.5% or 16 total occurrences were Black.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Swedish in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Swedish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Swedish in a Sentence

  1. Mathias Cormann:

    Our embassy in South Korea has reached out to relevant officials in North Korea, there is obviously some complications in providing consular assistance into North Korea. We work through the Swedish government in North Korea and all of these steps are underway.

  2. Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

    The last Australian submarine came off the production line in about 2001. As I understand it the last Swedish submarine came off the production line in about 1996, so it's almost two decades since Sweden built a submarine, we are working with the three countries that have continuous, relevant submarine experience.

  3. Abeba Aregawi:

    I haven't managed to compete this year, so if it's OK to run on last year's times I want to compete, but because I haven't heard anything from the Swedish Olympic Committee I don't know if I can compete.

  4. Jen Robinson:

    Julian Assanges is not above the law. Julian Assanges has never been concerned about facing UK justice or even Swedish justice.

  5. Fredrik Eriksson:

    The banquet is held in extremely high regard internationally and the quality of the food served must be absolutely world-class, the food must have clear Swedish influences and carefully selected produce with good sustainability. There must be creativity but with a classic tone.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

Swedish#1#5187#10000

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