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GREENLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark
Synonyms:
Greenland; Gronland; Kalaallit Nunaat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Meronyms (parts of "Greenland"):
Thule (a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there)
Domain member region:
subcontinent (a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent)
Holonyms ("Greenland" is a part of...):
Arctic Ocean (ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs)
Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)
Context examples:
Why, I could name ye a dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above—he pointed northwards—or where the currents may have drifted them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A country in northern Europe, island between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the UK.
(Iceland, NCI Thesaurus)
It's also thought to be among the most stable, not gaining or losing mass even as ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland shrink.
(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)
The new research illustrates how sudden climate changes that began in the North Atlantic around Greenland circulated southward, appearing in the Antarctic approximately 200 years later.
(Antarctic ice core reveals how sudden climate changes in North Atlantic moved south, NSF)
Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The Cambridge-led team pinpointed the date of the eruption using ice core records from Greenland that preserve the volcanic fallout from Eldgjá.
(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)
A general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Russia and the United States.
(Inuit, NCI Thesaurus)
Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2, the second phase of an effort by a group of scientists to produce long records of climate by drilling into the Greenland Ice Sheet from the surface to bedrock.
(GISP2, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
These whales I have known so large, that a man could hardly carry one upon his shoulders; and sometimes, for curiosity, they are brought in hampers to Lorbrulgrud; I saw one of them in a dish at the king’s table, which passed for a rarity, but I did not observe he was fond of it; for I think, indeed, the bigness disgusted him, although I have seen one somewhat larger in Greenland.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
