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ICELANDER
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• ICELANDER (noun)
The noun ICELANDER has 1 sense:
1. a native or inhabitant of Iceland
Familiarity information: ICELANDER used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Iceland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Icelander" is a kind of...):
European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)
Holonyms ("Icelander" is a member of...):
Iceland; Republic of Iceland (an island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944)
Derivation:
Iceland (a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle)
Iceland (an island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944)
Context examples
He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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