Danish
Americanadjective
noun
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a North Germanic language, the language of Denmark, closely related to Norwegian, Swedish, and Icelandic. Dan, Dan.
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(sometimes lowercase) Danish pastry.
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- anti-Danish adjective
- non-Danish adjective
- pro-Danish adjective
Etymology
Origin of Danish
First recorded before 900; Middle English, alteration of Denshe, Danshe, Dench (by influence of Dan “(a) Dane”), Old English Denisc , from Germanic daniskaz; Dane, -ish 1
Example Sentences
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Citing sources in the Danish government, it reported that soldiers, medical supplies and blood were flown into Greenland in January to blow up key airport runways over fears that Trump would invade the arctic island.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
The Danish drugmaker agreed to pay up to $2 billion for the rights to the developmental weight-loss and obesity drug last year as it looks to boost its pipeline of next-generation drugs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
The election has come in the wake of US President Donald Trump's repeated demands to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
"People may not really like her, but they see her as the right leader," Elisabet Svane, political analyst at Danish newspaper Politiken, told AFP.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
In that year Peter Wilhelm Lund, a Danish botanist, found thirty skeletons in caves twenty miles north of Belo Horizonte.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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