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
Over the years, Christiania has become one of Copenhagen’s biggest tourist attractions, a magnet for Danes as well as foreigners.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
They established a self-governing hippy commune called Freetown Christiania, which the Danish government permitted as a ‘social experiment’.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021
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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