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Copenhagenization

Copenhagenization noun: the adaptation to the norms of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Noun

Copenhagenization (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The adaptation to the norms of Copenhagen in Denmark.
    • In addition they [American policy makers] viewed socialists as insufficiently hard-nosed in dealing with world problems. The specter was thus less that of "Finlandization" than of "Copenhagenization."1979, Kenneth A. Oye, Donald S. Rothchild, Robert J. Lieber, Eagle Entangled: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Complex World, page 272
    • The far‐reaching linguistic “Copenhagenization” of the country has its correlate in an even more ubiquitous subjective Copenhagenization: everywhere, young people not only downgrade their own local accents […] relative to young Copenhagen speech, but they also perceive and evaluate the variation in...2018, Charles Boberg, John Nerbonne, Dominic Watt, The Handbook of Dialectology, page 119

Origin of Copenhagenization

From Copenhagen + -ization.

Questions about Copenhagenization

What does Copenhagenization mean?
Copenhagenization means the adaptation to the norms of Copenhagen in Denmark.
What part of speech is Copenhagenization?
Copenhagenization is a noun.

Words near Copenhagenization in the dictionary

  1. Copenhagener
  2. Copenhageners
  3. Copenhagenism
  4. Copenhagenist
  5. Copenhagenists
  6. Copenhagenization
  7. Copenhagens
  8. Copenhaver
  9. Copenhavers
  10. copenned
  11. copenning

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