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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sweden mean? 

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

1. a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEDEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kingdom of Sweden; Sverige; Sweden

Instance hypernyms:

Scandinavian country; Scandinavian nation (any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia)

Meronyms (parts of "Sweden"):

Gota Canal (a canal for small oceangoing ships to enter Lake Vanern in Sweden)

capital of Sweden; Stockholm (the capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic)

Malmo (a port in southern Sweden)

Lund (a city in southern Sweden)

Goeteborg; Goteborg; Gothenburg (a port in southwestern Sweden; second largest city in Sweden)

Uppsala; Upsala (a city in east central Sweden to the northwest of Stockholm)

Lake Vanern; Vanern (a lake in southwestern Sweden; the largest lake in Sweden)

Meronyms (members of "Sweden"):

Swede (a native or inhabitant of Sweden)

Holonyms ("Sweden" is a member of...):

Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)

Scandinavia (a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian)

 Context examples 

Sudden geomagnetic storms were observed from Sweden to Arizona and scientists used the observed time of the events to determine the speed at which the particles from the explosion traveled.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

In Sweden, population is growing too, but this may have nothing to do with the crisis.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

He left Sweden when he was eighteen, is now thirty-eight, and in all the intervening time has not been home once.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Sweden was also represented, in the person of Professor Sergius, the famous Zoologist of the University of Upsala.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)

In Western Europe, only small areas of night sky remain relatively undiminished, mainly in Scotland, Sweden and Norway.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)

The researchers were from the U.S. and from Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden.

(New Genetic Discovery May Eventually End Premature Birth, VOA)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries of northern Europe such as Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, or Great Britain.

(Northern European, NCI Thesaurus)

An archipelago in the Baltic Sea at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland.

(Aland Islands, NCI Thesaurus)

Provider: Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

(KA08, NCI Thesaurus)