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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oslo mean? 

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

1. the capital and largest city of Norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on Norway's southern coast

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSLO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Norway; Christiania; Oslo

Instance hypernyms:

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Kingdom of Norway; Noreg; Norge; Norway (a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905)

 Context examples 

However, if both the population and price of walrus started to tumble, it must have badly undermined the resilience of the settlements, says co-author Dr Bastiaan Star of the University of Oslo.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

Now, researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Oslo have studied ancient DNA from offcuts of tusks and skulls, most found on the sites of former ivory workshops across Europe, in order to trace the origin of the animals used in the medieval trade.

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

Latest research from the universities of Cambridge, Oslo and Trondheim has found that, for hundreds of years, almost all ivory traded across Europe came from walruses hunted in seas only accessible via Norse settlements in south-western Greenland.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)