noun
Etymology
Origin of Christiania
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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If you want dinner with a literary patina, grab the French onion soup at Michel’s Christiania, a favorite of longtime resident Ernest Hemingway.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
There were celebratory claps and cheers of "Christiania", as locals prised up heavy cobblestones and tossed them into wheelbarrows, one by one.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2024
Found within a kilometre of the Danish parliament, Freetown Christiania was established in 1971 when a bunch of anarchists and hippies squatted inside a vacant military base.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2024
This dance has taken place several times a day this summer between the government of Denmark and Freetown Christiania, one of Europe’s longest-running utopian experiments.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2018
As children, we always knew it as Christiania, but if I call it that here we shall only get confused, so I had better stick to Oslo all the way through.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
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