Greenland

plural Greenlands

1. countableuncountableA large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America. Capital and largest city: Nuuk.

   What’s been less well understood is how President Trump’s idle musing has added another chapter to the long history of Greenland and its people being viewed simply as a resource to be exploited by larger powers.

   2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2020

2. countableuncountableThe ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).

   Modern Danish colonization of Greenland began with what today might also seem like a joke.

   2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2020

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   To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.

   1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28

3. countableobsoleteuncountableSpitzbergen, another island in Europe formerly thought to have been part of Greenland.
4. countableuncountableA surname.
5. countableuncountableA city in Arkansas.
6. countableuncountableA village in Barbados.
7. countableuncountableA ghost town in California.
8. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Colorado.
9. countableuncountableA town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
10. countableuncountableA community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
11. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in West Virginia.