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Odense

Odense proper noun: the largest city in the Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark) and third-largest city in Denmark.

odense: the largest city in the Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark) and third-largest city in...
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Proper noun

Odense

  1. The largest city in the Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark) and third-largest city in Denmark.
  2. Odense Municipality (Odense Kommune), the municipality of which the city of Odense is administrative centre.
    • In the policy document, Odense municipality listed several matters to be considered when deciding what to put up for contracting.[…]The policy document gives the broad guidelines for contracting out in Odense.2005, Carsten Greve, Niels Ejersbo, Contracts as Reinvented Institutions in the Public Sector, Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger), page 91
  3. An unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas, United States, named after the Danish city. See Odense, Kansas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Origin of Odense

Borrowed from Danish Odense.

Words formed from Odense

  • City of Odense

Questions about Odense

What does Odense mean?
Odense means the largest city in the Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark) and third-largest city in Denmark.
What part of speech is Odense?
Odense is a proper noun.

Words near Odense in the dictionary

  1. Odelsthing
  2. Odelsting
  3. odema
  4. oden
  5. Odenkirk
  6. Odense
  7. Odenthal
  8. Odenthals
  9. Odenville
  10. odeon
  11. odeons

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