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Swedish
Etymology 1
From sov (“sleep”) + stad (“town”)
Pronunciation
Noun
sovstad c
- dormitory town
1947, Plan:Södertälje, av gammalt en typisk drabantstad, och Uppsala, som länge varit en helt självständig stad, har nu i förvånansvärt hög grad blivit sovstäder till Stockholm; i mindre utsträckning är Stockholm sovstad åt de båda andra.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Södertälje, of old a typical satellite city, and Uppsala, which since long have been a completely independent city, have now in surprisingly high degree become dormitory towns to Stockholm; to a lesser extent is Stockholm dormitory town towards the other two.
2012, Sverige forever in my heart:Framtiden för Eslöv ligger till stor del i att vara en sovstad för människor med jobb i Lund, Malmö och Helsingborg.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- The future of Eslöv lies largely in being a dormitory town for people with jobs in Lund, Malmö and Helsingborg.
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Etymology 2
sov (“sleep”) + stad (“stead”)
Pronunciation
Noun
sovstad c
- (archaic) sleepstead; a place to sleep
- 1975, Martin Perne, Mot förtryckarnas våld, Berghs förlag, page 273
De två dejorna hade sin lega i kokhuset och med dem fick jag dela sovstad.- The two maids had their kip in the cook house and with them I got to share sleepstead.
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