GREENLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Greenland mean? 

• GREENLAND (noun)
  The noun GREENLAND has 1 sense:

1. the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark

  Familiarity information: GREENLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREENLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Greenland; Gronland; Kalaallit Nunaat

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Greenland"):

Thule (a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there)

Domain member region:

subcontinent (a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent)

Holonyms ("Greenland" is a part of...):

Arctic Ocean (ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs)

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

New research shows that an iceless Greenland may be in the future.

(New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in the future, National Science Foundation)

The storm initially produced patches of extra electrons in the ionosphere over northern Greenland, as usual.

(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)

Although the newly found impact craters in northwest Greenland are only 114 miles apart, they do not appear to have been formed at the same time.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

Climate oscillations averaging a few thousand years in duration that dominate Greenland ice-core records.

(Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

The native people inhabiting the Arctic of northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, or eastern Siberia.

(Eskimo, NCI Thesaurus)

The crater — the first of any size found under the Greenland ice sheet — is one of the 25 largest impact craters on Earth, measuring roughly 1,000 feet deep and more than 19 miles in diameter.

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

The Inuit, natives of Greenland, live in extremely cold conditions that can hover in the negative digits in winter.

(Genetic Adaptations to Diet and Climate, NIH)

These glaciers already contribute significantly to sea level rise, releasing almost as much ice into the ocean annually as the entire Greenland Ice Sheet.

(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)

The final piece of the puzzle was to analyse ice cores from Greenland, to study changes in temperature and climate over the same time period.

(A new study is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts., University of Cambridge)

All by itself, Greenland could bump sea levels by 7 meters if its ice melted completely.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)