adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Someone from Scandinavia.
2. 2
   the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland wordnet
3. 3
   The Scandinavian Defence.
4. 4
   an inhabitant of Scandinavia wordnet

Adjective

1. 1
   Of or relating to Scandinavia.

   "I thought I could organize freedom / How Scandinavian of me"

2. 2
   Of or relating to the North Germanic family of languages to which Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.

Adjective

1. 1
   of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

languagenordicnorsenorsenorth germanicnorth germanic language

Example

More examples

"I can understand all the Scandinavian languages."

Etymology

From Scandinavi(a) + -an.

Related phrases

Pan-ScandinavianismScandinavian DefenceScandinavian PeninsulaScandinavian crossScandinavian mileScandinavian noirScandinavian padlockScandinavian studiesanti-Scandinavianismpan-Scandinaviannorth germanic

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.