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Scandinavia
[ skan-duh-ney-vee-uh ]
- Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and sometimes Finland, Iceland, and the Faeroe Islands.
- Also called Scan·di·na·vi·an Pen·in·su·la [skan-d, uh, -, ney, -vee-, uh, n p, uh, -, nin, -s, uh, -l, uh, p, uh, -, nins, -y, uh, -l, uh]. the peninsula consisting of Norway and Sweden.
Scandinavia
/ ˌskændɪˈneɪvɪə /
- Also calledthe Scandinavian Peninsula the peninsula of N Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden
- the countries of N Europe, esp considered as a cultural unit and including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and often Finland, Iceland, and the Faeroes
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- an·ti-Scan·di·na·vi·a adjective
- pro-Scan·di·na·vi·a adjective
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Example Sentences
Around 50 men, whose bones can be traced back to Scandinavia, were rounded up and beheaded at some point in the 11th Century.
In Greece, they sneak into homes to scare children, and in Scandinavia, the gnomes play pranks.
The Daily Pic: At Scandinavia House, the Popster riffs on the angst-man.
Marxism may have developed in the middle of the 19th century but it has since evolved into the social democracies of Scandinavia.
This was literally the Avatar of Scandinavia, and yet, I never even knew it existed.
She seemed like a released soul, something soaring and on the wing, far-distant as the wild fjords of her native Scandinavia.
It is unquestionable that in England as in Scandinavia and Germany “giants and dwarfs were originally identical phenomenon”.
As a thunder god Finn carried a hammer with which he smote his shield; the blows were heard in Lochlann (Scandinavia).
The vastness of these numbers, indeed, makes me question whether they all come from Scandinavia.
They cannot be much older than the French period of transition, when Scandinavia first became habitable.
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