Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Gothenburg; a city on the west coast of Sweden, in the province of Västergötland.
Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder of France won the ice dance title at the World Figure Skating Championships in Goteborg, Sweden, and the Americans Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto went home without a medal for the first time since 2004.
2008 March 22, The Associated Press, “French Victory in Ice Dance”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
Origin
- SwedishGöteborg
- EnglishGoteborg
Borrowed from Swedish Göteborg.
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