Scandinavian
Syllables: Scan·di·na·vi·an/ˌskændɪˈneɪvi.ən/
Scandinavian noun: someone from Scandinavia.
Noun
Scandinavian (plural Scandinavians)
- Someone from Scandinavia.
- The Scandinavian Defence.
Adjective
Scandinavian (comparative more Scandinavian, superlative most Scandinavian)
- Of or relating to Scandinavia.
- I thought I could organize freedom / How Scandinavian of me1997, “Hunter”, in Homogenic, performed by Björk
- The Vikings: For a three hundred year period beginning in 800 AD, a group of Scandinavian kinksters based in Sweden roamed the ocean, from time to time making land and slaughtering whatever local people they found.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 40
- Of or relating to the North Germanic family of languages to which Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.
Scandinavian meaning in Tagalog
Scandinavian in Tagalog
- of or relating to Scandinavia
- Eskandinabo
Forms of Scandinavian
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | Scandinavians |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more Scandinavian |
| superlative | most Scandinavian |
Origin of Scandinavian
From Scandinavi(a) + -an.
Words formed from Scandinavian
- anti-Scandinavianism
- Blandinavian
- East Scandinavian
- pan-Scandinavian
- Pan-Scandinavianism
- Scandie
- Scandiknavery
- Scandinavian cross
- Scandinavian Defence
- Scandinavianism
- Scandinavianist
- Scandinavianization
- Scandinavianize
- Scandinavian mile
- Scandinavianness
- Scandinavian noir
- Scandinavian padlock
- Scandinavian Peninsula
- Scandinavian studies
- Scandiwegian
Phrases with Scandinavian
Questions about Scandinavian
- What does Scandinavian mean?
- Scandinavian means someone from Scandinavia.
- What is Scandinavian in Tagalog?
- Scandinavian in Tagalog is Eskandinabo. See Scandinavian meaning in Tagalog.
- What part of speech is Scandinavian?
- Scandinavian can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce Scandinavian?
- Scandinavian is pronounced /ˌskændɪˈneɪvi.ən/.
- What is the plural of Scandinavian?
- The plural of Scandinavian is Scandinavians.
Words near Scandinavian in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Scandinavian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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