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STOCKHOLM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Stockholm mean?
• STOCKHOLM (noun)
The noun STOCKHOLM has 1 sense:
1. the capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic
Familiarity information: STOCKHOLM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
capital of Sweden; Stockholm
Context example:
the Nobel Prize is awarded in Stockholm
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("Stockholm" is a part of...):
Kingdom of Sweden; Sverige; Sweden (a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula)
Context examples
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm, Sweden.
(Swedish academy announces 2019 Nobel Prize winners in physics, Wikinews)
Provider: Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
(KA08, NCI Thesaurus)
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