Icelandic
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A native or inhabitant of Iceland; an Icelander.
- 2 a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Iceland wordnet
- 3 An Icelandic horse.
- 1 Of or relating to the North Germanic language spoken in Iceland.
- 2 Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland.
- 3 Of, relating to, or originating from Iceland.
"Despite of the absence of Shaun Derry and Adel Taarabt because of illness and injury respectively, the home side began superbly. Helguson twice threatened early on with shots from the right-hand corner of the box before Anton Ferdinand spurned a great chance at the back post following the Icelandic striker's header back across goal."
- 1 of or relating to Iceland or its people or culture and language wordnet
- 1 A North Germanic language, the national tongue of Iceland.
"Although it's hard for us to imagine, they see the pixels in a raw, uninterpreted fashion, and thus to them a TV screen is as drained of long-ago-and-far-away meaning as is, to you or me, a pile of fall leaves, a Jackson Pollock painting, or a newspaper article in Malagasy (my apologies to you if you speak Malagasy; in that case, please replace it by Icelandic — and don't tell me that you speak that language, too!)."
Example
More examples"Here's my flag for Nynorsk. Because the philosophy of Nynorsk is based on the maximum divergence from Danish, Danish background of the flag is to be replaced with Icelandic, because Icelandic served as inspiration for the language creators. The flag is not rectangular in form, because... Well, that Nynorsk is strange after all."
Etymology
From Iceland + -ic.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.