Greenland

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From green +‎ land, calque of Old Norse Grǿnland, from grǿnn (green) +‎ land (land).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹiːn.lənd/, /ˈɡɹiːn.lænd/
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Proper noun

Greenland, a home country of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Greenland

  1. A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America.
  2. The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
    • 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:
      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.
  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 New Hampshire
  10. A community of Nova Scotia, Canada
  11. An unincorporated community in West Virginia

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Scots

Etymology

Calque of Old Norse Grœnland, from grœnn (green) + land (land).

Proper noun

Greenland

  1. Greenland (a large self-governing island and dependent territory of Denmark, in North America)