SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scandinavian country mean? 

• SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY (noun)
  The noun SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia

  Familiarity information: SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Scandinavian country; Scandinavian nation

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)