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ICELANDER

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Overview

ICELANDER (noun)
  The noun ICELANDER has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Icelandplay

  Familiarity information: ICELANDER used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ICELANDER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Iceland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Icelander" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Icelander" is a member of...):

Iceland; Republic of Iceland (an island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944)

Derivation:

Iceland (a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle)

Iceland (an island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944)


 Context examples 


He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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