SCANDINAVIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scandinavia mean? 

• SCANDINAVIA (noun)
  The noun SCANDINAVIA has 2 senses:

1. the peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden

2. a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian

  Familiarity information: SCANDINAVIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCANDINAVIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Scandinavia; Scandinavian Peninsula

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

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

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Derivation:

Scandinavian (of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (members of "Scandinavia"):

Danmark; Denmark; Kingdom of Denmark (a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea)

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)

Kingdom of Sweden; Sverige; Sweden (a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula)

Norse; Northman; Scandinavian (an inhabitant of Scandinavia)

Domain member region:

smorgasbord (an assortment of foods starting with herring or smoked eel or salmon etc with bread and butter; then cheeses and eggs and pickled vegetables and aspics; finally hot foods; served as a buffet meal)

lutefisk; lutfisk (dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency)

troll ((Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains)

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

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Derivation:

Scandinavian (of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures)

 Context examples 

To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the King of Scandinavia.

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

Walruses of the eastern lineage are widespread across much of the Arctic, including Scandinavia.

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

The team pieced together data from a sediment core drilled from the bottom of the Nordic Seas, a lake sediment core from southern Scandinavia, and ice cores from Greenland.

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

Between ourselves, the recent cases in which I have been of assistance to the royal family of Scandinavia, and to the French republic, have left me in such a position that I could continue to live in the quiet fashion which is most congenial to me, and to concentrate my attention upon my chemical researches.

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

The King of Scandinavia.

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