härad

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See also: ha råd

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Etymology

From Old Swedish hæraþ, from Old Norse herað (district; country).

Noun

härad n

  1. a hundred; a court district in the Swedish countryside from medieval times until 1970
  2. (idiomatic) an area of (possibly remote) similarity
    • 2016 October 24, Rebecka Kvint, “Hamnens nota: 623,6 miljoner”, in Hallands Nyheter:
      Siffrorna är så hyggliga de kan vara i det här skedet. Det kommer inte att landa på detta exakt, men siffrorna är i rätt härad. Man får räkna med en felmarginal på runt 20 procent i dagsläget.
      The figures are as reasonable as they can be at this stage. They won’t land exactly at this amount, but the numbers are in the right range. One should expect a margin of error of about 20 percent at this point.
    • 2023, 12:53 from the start, in Doobidoo, episode 6, spoken by Lasse Kronér, quiz show:
      – [Är det] Peter Himmelstrand?
      – Nej. Ni är inne i rätt härad på ett sätt.
      – Peter Himmelstrand?
      – No. You're in the right general area in a way.
      (literally, “You're in the right hundred in a way.”)

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