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SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia
Synonyms:
Scandinavian country; Scandinavian nation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("Scandinavian country" is a kind of...):
European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)
Instance hyponyms:
Danmark; Denmark; Kingdom of Denmark (a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea)
Kingdom of Norway; Noreg; Norge; Norway (a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905)
Kingdom of Sweden; Sverige; Sweden (a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula)
Holonyms ("Scandinavian country" is a part of...):
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)