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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Norway mean? 

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

1. a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kingdom of Norway; Noreg; Norge; Norway

Instance hypernyms:

Scandinavian country; Scandinavian nation (any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia)

Meronyms (parts of "Norway"):

Svalbard (a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean)

Lofoten (a string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea)

capital of Norway; Christiania; Oslo (the capital and largest city of Norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on Norway's southern coast)

Bergen (a port city in southwestern Norway)

Stavanger (a port city in southwestern Norway; center for shipbuilding industry)

Nidaros; Trondheim (a port in central Norway on Trondheim Fjord)

Lindesnes; Naze (a cape at the southern tip of Norway)

Trondheim Fiord; Trondheim Fjord (a long narrow inlet of the Norwegian Sea)

Meronyms (members of "Norway"):

Norse; Norseman; Norwegian (a native or inhabitant of Norway)

Holonyms ("Norway" is a member of...):

NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)

Scandinavia (a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian)

Derivation:

Norwegian (of or relating to Norway or its people or culture or language)

 Context examples 

I found that he had been in command of a whaler which was due to return from the Arctic seas at the very time when my father was crossing to Norway.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Norway becomes the first country to start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations.

(Norway start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations, Wikipedia)

In Western Europe, only small areas of night sky remain relatively undiminished, mainly in Scotland, Sweden and Norway.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)

Denotes the inhabitants of Norway, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Norwegian, NCI Thesaurus)

In Norway, PGR has increased from 0.88% in 2006-2007 to 1.2% in 2007-2008 and continued to grow in 2008-2009, reaching 1.31% on January 1, 2009.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

That 'ere wolf what we called Bersicker was one of three grey ones that came from Norway to Jamrach's, which we bought off him four years ago.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Hump, if you will look on the west coast of the map of Norway you will see an indentation called Romsdal Fiord.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Later Icelandic accounts suggest that in the 1120s, Greenlanders used walrus ivory to secure the right to their own bishopric from the king of Norway.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

An island group between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Iceland to Norway.

(Faroe Islands, NCI Thesaurus)

The disease also has been found in South Korea, Norway and Finland.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)