NORTH GERMANIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Germanic mean? 

• NORTH GERMANIC (noun)
  The noun NORTH GERMANIC has 1 sense:

1. the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland

  Familiarity information: NORTH GERMANIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH GERMANIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Nordic; Norse; North Germanic; North Germanic language; Scandinavian; Scandinavian language

Hypernyms ("North Germanic" is a kind of...):

Germanic; Germanic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "North Germanic"):

Danish (a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark)

Icelandic (a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Iceland)

Norwegian (a Scandinavian language that is spoken in Norway)

Swedish (a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland)

Faeroese; Faroese (a Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands)

 Context examples 

An Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic (Scandinavian) branch; the official language of Iceland.

(Icelandic Language, NCI Thesaurus)