Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

copenhagenization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: copen-hag-e-niza-tion
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The adaptation to the norms of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In addition they [American policy makers] viewed socialists as insufficiently hard-nosed in dealing with world problems. The specter was thus less that of "Finlandization" than of "Copenhagenization.""
"The far‐reaching linguistic “Copenhagenization” of the country has its correlate in an even more ubiquitous subjective Copenhagenization: everywhere, young people not only downgrade their own local accents […] relative to young Copenhagen speech, but they also perceive and evaluate the variation in this speech […] in exactly the same way as young Copenhageners do themselves."

Etymology

From Copenhagen + -ization.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does copenhagenization mean?: The adaptation to the norms of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Where does copenhagenization come from?: From Copenhagen + -ization.

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