English

Noun

Scandinavian ‎(plural Scandinavians)

1. Someone from Scandinavia.

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Adjective

Scandinavian ‎(comparative more Scandinavian, superlative most Scandinavian)

1. Of 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 the North Germanic family to which Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.

Derived terms

• Scandinavian Peninsula

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