SVALBARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Svalbard mean? 

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

1. a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SVALBARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Svalbard"):

Spitsbergen; Spitzbergen (islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway)

Holonyms ("Svalbard" is a part of...):

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)

Arctic Ocean (ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs)