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Definition of Icelander

1. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Iceland.

Definition of Icelander

1. n. A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.

Definition of Icelander

1. Noun. A person from Iceland or of Icelandic descent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Icelander

Literary usage of Icelander

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Male. a«ed thirty years, Icelander, Winnipeg, Man. Sixteen cysts of different parts of abdominal cavity (first operation); two cysts in peritoneal cavity ..."

2. Fraser's Magazine (1877)
"In the present case it is the style of a simple Icelander who had learned to ex- The exact date of his demise -was not ..."

3. A Larger History of the United States of America, to the Close of President by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1886)
"A sand-hill two hundred feet high would hardly have done duty for a mountain on a map made in Iceland. But the cha- NORTH ATLANTIC, BY THE Icelander SIGURD ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... Survivals" (1892); "The Icelander^ Sword" (1893). In addition to tho above works he has written the follow» Ing novela: ..."

5. History of the United States from 986 to 1905 by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William MacDonald (1905)
"... by the Icelander Sigurd Stephanius in the year 1570, and preserved by the NORTH ATLANTIC, BY THE Icelander SIGURD STEPHANIUS, IN Scandinavian historian ..."

6. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1855)
"... for hi? own subsistence, to the redemption of captives.s This trait of philanthropy spoke of better feelings m the heart of the rude Icelander, ..."

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