Norwegian

American  

[nawr-wee-juhn] / nɔrˈwi dʒən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Norway, its inhabitants, or their language.

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noun

• Norwegians
  plural

1. a native or inhabitant of Norway.

2. the language of Norway, a Germanic language spoken in two different dialects known as Bokmål and Nynorsk. Norw

Norwegian British  

/ nɔːˈwiːdʒən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Norway, its language, or its people

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noun

1. any of the various North Germanic languages of Norway See also Nynorsk Bokmål Compare Norse

2. a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Norway

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• anti-Norwegian
  adjective
• pro-Norwegian
  adjective
• pseudo-Norwegian
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Norwegians
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of Norwegian

1595–1605; earlier Norvegian < Medieval Latin Norvegi ( a ) Norway + -an

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Example Sentences

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Norwegian Norwegians

"Everyone I know is very happy with how the Norwegian football league operates," he says.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

“We don’t want to be known for the Dan Sullivan thing. We want to be known because we’re a great Norwegian fishing village.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

He also suggested he no longer wanted Norwegian immigrants coming to the United States because he had not received the prize.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

But last week, Stubb, Støre and Zelesnky met with Witkoff in the Norwegian capital, before the US special envoy travelled on to St Petersburg to meet Putin.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

There were stewed apricots and five or six different cheeses including of course the ever-present gjetost, that tall brown rather sweet Norwegian goat’s cheese which you find on just about every table in the land.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

After finishing champions last year, they have made it to the league stage of the Champions League, where they recently started eight Norwegians in their line-up, four of whom had been in their academy.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Or should the seemingly enlightened Norwegians be more understanding?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

While these facets might depict our tech-obsessed age, Mungiu writes them in a way that makes the Norwegians look silly, and the Gheorghius look like objectively good parents.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Norwegians rejected EU membership in a 1994 referendum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

When the pilot reached the Hardanger Plateau, the Norwegians heard the engines slowing as the plane’s altitude dropped quickly from 10,000 to 1,000 feet.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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