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SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden
Synonyms:
Scandinavia; Scandinavian Peninsula
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)
Holonyms ("Scandinavian Peninsula" 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)