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KINGDOM OF NORWAY
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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 "Kingdom 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 "Kingdom of Norway"):
Norse; Norseman; Norwegian (a native or inhabitant of Norway)
Holonyms ("Kingdom of 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)
