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Sven

Sven proper noun: a male given name from Swedish.

Proper noun

Sven

  1. A male given name from Swedish.
    • “For many cities, the urban layout allows similar urban re-design strategies, even if the city is not a perfect model of the grid-like layout,” says Sven Eggimann, a researcher focusing on sustainable urban planning at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in...2022 March 8, Sarah DeWeerdt, “Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make a surprising number of cities greener and less car-centric”, in Anthropocene Magazine, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022

Origin of Sven

Borrowed from Swedish Sven.

Questions about Sven

What does Sven mean?
Sven means a male given name from Swedish.
What part of speech is Sven?
Sven is a proper noun.

Words near Sven in the dictionary

  1. svelte
  2. sveltely
  3. svelteness
  4. svelter
  5. sveltest
  6. Sven
  7. svengali
  8. Svengalian
  9. svengalis
  10. Svenson
  11. Svensons

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