TRONDHEIM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trondheim mean? 

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

1. a port in central Norway on Trondheim Fjord

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRONDHEIM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port in central Norway on Trondheim Fjord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Nidaros; Trondheim

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Trondheim" 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)

 Context examples 

Latest research from the universities of Cambridge, Oslo and Trondheim has found that, for hundreds of years, almost all ivory traded across Europe came from walruses hunted in seas only accessible via Norse settlements in south-western Greenland.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)