Meanings
proper noun
- Odense Municipality (Odense Kommune), the municipality of which the city of Odense is administrative centre.
In the policy document, Odense municipality listed several matters to be considered when deciding what to put up for contracting.[…]The policy document gives the broad guidelines for contracting out in Odense.
2005, Carsten Greve, Niels Ejersbo, Contracts as Reinvented Institutions in the Public Sector, Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger), page 91 - An unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas, United States, named after the Danish city. See Odense, Kansas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Origin
- DanishOdense
- EnglishOdense
Borrowed from Danish Odense.
More words from Danish
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 歐登塞 /欧登塞
- 歐登塞 /欧登塞 (Ōudēngsài)city in southern Denmark
Danish Odense
- Odensecity in southern Denmark
Finnish Odense
- Odensecity in southern Denmark
French Odense
- Odensecity in southern Denmark
German Odense, Ottensee
- Odensecity in southern Denmark
- Ottenseecity in southern Denmark
Icelandic Óðinsvé
- Óðinsvécity in southern Denmark
Latin Othania, Othenae
- Othaniacity in southern Denmark
- Othenaecity in southern Denmark
- Othimacity in southern Denmark
- Ottiniumcity in southern Denmark
- Ottoniacity in southern Denmark
- Odinicity in southern Denmark
Norwegian Odense
- Odensecity in southern Denmark
Polish Odense
- Odensecity in southern Denmark
Russian О́денсе
- О́денсе (Ódense)city in southern Denmark
Swedish Odense
- Odensecity in southern Denmark
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Cite this entry
APA
Odense. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Odense
MLA
“Odense.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Odense. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Odense,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Odense.
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