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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905
Synonyms:
Kingdom of Norway; Noreg; Norge; Norway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Scandinavian country; Scandinavian nation (any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia)
Meronyms (parts of "Norway"):
Svalbard (a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean)
Lofoten (a string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea)
capital of Norway; Christiania; Oslo (the capital and largest city of Norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on Norway's southern coast)
Bergen (a port city in southwestern Norway)
Stavanger (a port city in southwestern Norway; center for shipbuilding industry)
Nidaros; Trondheim (a port in central Norway on Trondheim Fjord)
Lindesnes; Naze (a cape at the southern tip of Norway)
Trondheim Fiord; Trondheim Fjord (a long narrow inlet of the Norwegian Sea)
Meronyms (members of "Norway"):
Norse; Norseman; Norwegian (a native or inhabitant of Norway)
Holonyms ("Norway" is a member of...):
NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)
Scandinavia (a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian)
Derivation:
Norwegian (of or relating to Norway or its people or culture or language)
Context examples:
The researchers were from the U.S. and from Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
(New Genetic Discovery May Eventually End Premature Birth, VOA)
The team of scientists looked at the most harmful weather-related disasters — heat waves, cold snaps, wildfires, droughts, floods and windstorms — across the European Union, plus Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.
(Study: Climate Change Will Bring 50-Fold Rise in Europe Weather-related Deaths, VOA News)
Norway and Iceland allow hunting in their territorial waters.
(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)
Norway, Brunei and Saudi Arabia have all flagged that they wish to be an exporter of hydrogen around the world.
(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)
On September 30, 2019, Karsten Warholm of Norway won the 400 metres hurdles final at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar.
(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)
Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries of northern Europe such as Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, or Great Britain.
(Northern European, NCI Thesaurus)
The study describes the discovery and the detailed analysis of the remains undertaken by the team from UCL, the Geological Survey of Norway, US Geological Survey, The University of Western Australia, the University of Ottawa and the University of Leeds.
(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the Institute of Marine Research in Norway found that European glass eels use their magnetic sense to imprint a memory of water currents in the estuary where they become juveniles.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
Scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the Institute of Marine Research in Norway used a unique combination of experiments to track larvae movements, using a magnetoreception test facility, or MagLab, and a Norwegian fjord, a natural environment of Atlantic haddock larvae.
(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
