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Christiania

American  
[kris-chee-an-ee-uh, -ah-nee-uh, kris-tee-] / ˌkrɪs tʃiˈæn i ə, -ˈɑ ni ə, ˌkrɪs ti- /

noun

  1. former name of Oslo.

  2. Skiing. Christie.


Christiania British  
/ ˌkrɪstɪˈɑːnɪə /

noun

  1. a former name (1624–1877) of Oslo

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

The Danish state eventually accepted Christiania as a radical "social experiment", later giving it legal status.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2024

For more than 50 years, the hippy neighbourhood of Christiania has been a haven of counter-culture, in the very heart of the Danish capital Copenhagen.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2024

Prag, who has lived in Christiania for 37 years, likened it to “a village.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2024

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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