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SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scandinavian Peninsula mean? 

SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA (noun)
  The noun SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA (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 ("Scandinavian Peninsula" 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)


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