LAPLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lapland mean? 

• LAPLAND (noun)
  The noun LAPLAND has 1 sense:

1. a region in northmost Europe inhabited by Lapps

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAPLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region in northmost Europe inhabited by Lapps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Lapland; Lappland

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (members of "Lapland"):

Lapp; Lapplander; Saame; Saami; Same; Sami (a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer)

Holonyms ("Lapland" 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)

 Context examples 

They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)