Scandinavian

plural Scandinavians

1. Someone from Scandinavia.
2. board gamesThe Scandinavian Defence.

comparative more Scandinavian · superlative most Scandinavian

1. Of or relating to Scandinavia.

   I thought I could organize freedom / How Scandinavian of me

   1997, “Hunter”, in Homogenic, performed by Björk

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   The Vikings: For a three hundred year period beginning in 800 AD, a group of Scandinavian kinksters based in Sweden roamed the ocean, from time to time making land and slaughtering whatever local people they found.

   2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 40

   The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

   2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2020, page 55

   It’s the second year in a row that Switzerland’s Guerdat has triumphed at the FEI World Cup Jumping series as he finished ahead of Harrie Smolders, from the Netherlands, with Germany’s Daniel Deusser in third in front of an 11,000-strong crowd at the Scandinavian Arena.

   2016 March 29, Esra Gurkan, “Steve Guerdat: Swiss rider’s Jumping final victory is family affair”, in CNN

2. Of or relating to the North Germanic family of languages to which Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.