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SWEDEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula
Synonyms:
Kingdom of Sweden; Sverige; Sweden
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Scandinavian country; Scandinavian nation (any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia)
Meronyms (parts of "Sweden"):
Gota Canal (a canal for small oceangoing ships to enter Lake Vanern in Sweden)
capital of Sweden; Stockholm (the capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic)
Malmo (a port in southern Sweden)
Lund (a city in southern Sweden)
Goeteborg; Goteborg; Gothenburg (a port in southwestern Sweden; second largest city in Sweden)
Uppsala; Upsala (a city in east central Sweden to the northwest of Stockholm)
Lake Vanern; Vanern (a lake in southwestern Sweden; the largest lake in Sweden)
Meronyms (members of "Sweden"):
Swede (a native or inhabitant of Sweden)
Holonyms ("Sweden" is a member of...):
Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)
Scandinavia (a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian)
Context examples:
His English agent announced the sale of German translation rights in three of his books, and informed him that Swedish editions, from which he could expect nothing because Sweden was not a party to the Berne Convention, were already on the market.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A new study in EBioMedicine by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Medical University of Vienna, Austria suggests that immune response in early childhood to a handful of allergen molecules can predict the onset of allergic rhinitis and asthma in adolescence.
(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Researchers from Princeton University in the United States and Uppsala University in Sweden reported the new species evolved in just two generations, though this process had been believed to take much longer, due to breeding between an endemic Darwin finch, Geospiza fortes, and the immigrant cactus finch, Geospiza conirostris.
(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)
