SWEDISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Swedish mean? 

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

1. a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland

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

• SWEDISH (adjective)
  The adjective SWEDISH has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Sweden or its people or culture or language

  Familiarity information: SWEDISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEDISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Swedish" is a kind of...):

Nordic; Norse; North Germanic; North Germanic language; Scandinavian; Scandinavian language (the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland)

• SWEDISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Sweden or its people or culture or language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Swedish umlauts

Pertainym:

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

 Context examples 

The unit is used predominantly in German, Swedish, and other languages in which the word grad means degree.

(Gon, NCI Thesaurus)

In the Swedish population, the identified risk allergens came from peanut, birch, grass and cat, and in the British population from dust mite, grass and cat.

(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This work relied upon high-cadence observations from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, and the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope in La Palma, in the Canary Islands.

(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)

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)

His English agent announced the sale of German translation rights in three of his books, and informed him that Swedish editions, from which he could expect nothing because Sweden was not a party to the Berne Convention, were already on the market.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The study included data from 786 children from the Swedish birth cohort BAMSE, and 248 children from the UK birth cohort MAAS.

(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)