scandinavian
/ˌskændɪˈneɪvi.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone from Scandinavia.
noun
The Scandinavian Defence.
adj
Of or relating to Scandinavia.
Example Sentences
- "I thought I could organize freedom / How Scandinavian of me"
- "The Vikings: For a three hundred year period beginning in 800 AD, a group of Scandinavian kinksters based in Sweden roamed the ocean, from time to time making land and slaughtering whatever local people they found."
- "The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll."
- "It’s the second year in a row that Switzerland’s Guerdat has triumphed at the FEI World Cup Jumping series as he finished ahead of Harrie Smolders, from the Netherlands, with Germany’s Daniel Deusser in third in front of an 11,000-strong crowd at the Scandinavian Arena."
Etymology
Etymology tree English Scandinavi(a) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Scandinavian From Scandinavi(a) + -an.