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Definition of Scandinavia

1. Noun. The peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden.

2. Noun. A group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian.

Definition of Scandinavia

1. Proper noun. ''(political, cultural, linguistic etc.) ''Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively. ¹

2. Proper noun. ''(geographic)'' The Scandinavian peninsula (approximately Norway, Sweden and northern Finland). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scandinavia

Sazan Sazarac Sazaracs Sazerac Sazeracs Saïs Saône Sb SbE SbW

ScD Scabiosa arvensis Scabiosa atropurpurea Scandia Scandiknavery Scandinavia (current term) Scandinavian Scandinavian Peninsula Scandinavian country Scandinavian language

Scandinavian lox Scandinavian nation Scandinavians Scania Scanian Scanlon Scanning Probe Microscopy Scansores Scanzoni's manoeuvre Scanzoni's second os

Literary usage of Scandinavia

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

1. The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith (1920)
"Scandinavia looms large in the Middle Ages as the home of the teeming multitudes of emigrants, Goths and Vandals, who swarmed over the Roman ..."

2. The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith (1920)
"NOTE ON Scandinavia, POLAND, AND HUNGARY A few small countries bordering on the Empire, neither fully in the central stream of European culture, ..."

3. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1881)
"Britain, Scandinavia, and Spain, thus form three marked geographical wholes, three great divisions of beyond the that part of Europe which lay outside the ..."

4. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"Britain, Scandinavia, and Spain, thus form three History of marked geographical wholes, three great divisions of beyond the that part of Europe which lay ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"easily distinguish two persons confounded under the name of Odin—the god of war, and the great legislator of Scandinavia. The latter, the Mahomet of the ..."

6. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1920)
"Eugenics in Scandinavia "We are going to start this month a weekly or monthly review under the title Den Nordiske Race. The review. will be printed in ..."

7. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke (1904)
"E. Scandinavia. The little kingdom of Denmark has some fine civic ... The kingdoms of Scandinavia are not devoid of valuable architectural works of smaller ..."

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