SPITZBERGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spitzbergen mean? 

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

1. islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPITZBERGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Spitsbergen; Spitzbergen

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

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

Svalbard (a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean)

 Context examples 

From Spitzbergen through the Arctic, and across Canada and the Barrens, he had held his own with all manner of dogs and achieved to mastery over them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

One of them was a big, snow-white fellow from Spitzbergen who had been brought away by a whaling captain, and who had later accompanied a Geological Survey into the Barrens.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)