Greenland

Proper noun

Greenland

1. A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America. Capital and largest city: Nuuk.
   • What’s been less well understood is how President Trump’s idle musing has added another chapter to the long history of Greenland and its people being viewed simply as a resource to be exploited by larger powers.2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2020
2. The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
   • To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28
   • Modern Danish colonization of Greenland began with what today might also seem like a joke.2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2020
3. (obsolete) Spitzbergen, another island in Europe formerly thought to have been part of Greenland.
4. A surname.
5. A city in Arkansas.
6. A village in Barbados.
7. A ghost town in California.
8. An unincorporated community in Colorado.
9. A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
10. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
11. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.