fjeld
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fjeld
From Norwegian, dating back to 1855–60; see origin at fell 5
Example Sentences
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Then one day a Dane came down to us from the fjeld.
From Look Back on Happiness by Wiking, Paula
Over the cornices of the mountain-walls, hovering at least two thousand feet above, gleamed here and there the scattered snowy jötuns of the highest fjeld.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard
It is twenty-four miles from the village and eighteen across the fjeld.
From Look Back on Happiness by Wiking, Paula
She need not worry, for she has money in the bank, and no doubt there is a young man in the offing, on the other side of the fjeld.
From Look Back on Happiness by Wiking, Paula
In many places the precipices were 2000 feet in perpendicular height; and the streams of the upper fjeld, falling from the summits, lost themselves in evanescent water-dust before they reached the bottom.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard
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