scandinavianist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A supporter of Scandinavianism.
noun
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "In several songs to Poland Snoilsky gave vent to his sympathy. And finally he dedicates poems full of poetic fervor to Denmark, which was engaged in a war with Germany in 1864-65. Snoilsky was, as nearly all Swedes at the time, a Scandinavianist."
- "(rare)"
- "The lists of new members published regularly in our notes sections do not indicate that very many of the men and women in the field are making determined efforts to increase our membership. Cooperative efforts—say, at the rate of five new members per active Scandinavianist plus our treasurer's fine efforts to increase our library subscriptions—would solve the financial problem."
- "Seip presented arguments of four kinds to prove that this antecedent manuscript was of Norwegian origin. [...] There was an immediate rejoinder from the well-known German Scandinavianist, Hans Kuhn, to the effect that examples of similar Norvagisms could be found also in other Icelandic manuscripts."
- "Although the work does not pretend to be a scholarly contribution per se, it is doubtful that any Scandinavianist could not profit by studying this momentous (à la an Enc. Brit. yearbook in scope) work."
- "What a Scandinavianist, on the other hand, can learn from this book about the history, the manufacture, and the study of maps is no less worthy of remark."
Etymology
For the ideology, from Scandinav(ism) + -ist; in the meaning scholar of Scandinavian studies, Scandinavian + -ist with analogy with earlier Romanicist, Germanicist, Anglicist; likely reinforced by German Skandinavist.
Inflected Forms
Scandinavianists (plural)
Scandinavist (alternative)