LOFOTEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lofoten mean? 

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

1. a string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOFOTEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Lofoten" 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)

Norwegian Sea (the part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast to the north of the North Sea)