Scandinavian

 

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From Scandinavia +‎ -an.

• IPA^(key): /ˌskændɪˈneɪvi.ən/

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• Hyphenation: Scan‧di‧na‧vi‧an

Scandinavian (plural Scandinavians)

1. Someone from Scandinavia.
2. (Chess) The Scandinavian Defence.

Scandinavian (comparative more Scandinavian, superlative most Scandinavian)

1. Of or relating to Scandinavia.
   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

2. (Of a language) Of or relating to the North Germanic family of languages to which Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.