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Swedish

American  
[swee-dish] / ˈswi dɪʃ /

adjective

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


noun

  1. the people of Sweden collectively.

  2. a Germanic language, the language of Sweden and parts of Finland, closely related to Danish and Norwegian. Sw

Swedish British  
/ ˈswiːdɪʃ /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Sweden, its people, or their language

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the official language of Sweden, belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Indo-European family: one of the two official languages of Finland

  2. (functioning as plural) the people of Sweden collectively

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of Swedish

Swede + -ish 1

Example Sentences

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The Swedish telecommunications-equipment manufacturer said Tuesday that Narvinger, who currently heads the key networks business, will take over the top job on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

"I feel very Swedish when I'm working," he said.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

The pilot project is a joint enterprise by housing association BRF Stenberg, carmaker Volkswagen and Swedish utility company Vattenfall.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

The event was registered by seismic devices nearly a thousand miles away, as far as Sweden’s polar region, according to the Swedish seismologist Björn Lund.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

But these categories, originally devised by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in the mid-1700s, were purely descriptive, not mechanistic.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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