Crossword clues for scandinavian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scandinavian \Scan`di*na"vi*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1784; see Scandinavia + -ian. From 1830 as a noun; 1959 in reference to furniture and decor. In U.S. colloquial use sometimes Scandahoovian (1929), Scandiwegian. Alternative adjective Scandian (1660s) is from Latin Scandia.
Wikipedia
A Scandinavian is a resident of Scandinavia or something associated with the region, including:
- Scandinavianism, political and cultural movements
- Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), an aviation corporation
- Scandinavian Defense, a chess opening
- Scandinavian design, a design movement of the 1950s
- Scandinavian folklore
- Scandinavian Gold Cup, an international sailing competition established in 1919
- History of Scandinavia
- Scandinavian languages, a common alternative term for North Germanic languages
- Scandinavian literature, literature in the language of the Nordic Countries
- Scandinavian Mountains, a mountain range on the Scandinavian peninsula
- Scandinavian mythology
- Scandinavian Peninsula, a geographic region of northern Europe
- Scandinavian flick, a driving technique
The Scandinavian egg is an enamelled Easter egg made by Michael Perchin under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé between 1899 and 1903. The egg was made for a St. Petersburg client, one of the very few eggs that were not made for the Russian Imperial Family.
Usage examples of "scandinavian".
Not only the Anabaptists, but even the Calvinists, failed to get any hold upon the Scandinavian peoples.
Scandinavian wares attracted foreigners from many lands: Frisians, Anglo-Saxons, Germans, Balts, Greeks, and Orientals.
Bill and Mushy betook ourselves to a place where we couldst get some real whiskey and not the stuff they make in them Scandinavian countries.
He had never been to the hospital and only once sought medical carefor actinic keratosis, a condition besetting fair-skinned Scandinavians, which had been remedied with the removal of a few frecklelike papules on his forehead and nose, the consequence of too much sun as an adolescent.
Rus and Scandinavia, for the earliest known rulers of Kievan Russia were the three Scandinavian princes Riurik, Sineus, and Truvor.
The Latin-speaking provinces were tired, they said, of paying to defend the eastern borders against the Islamic kingdoms in Arabia and the encroaching Kievan vassal-states, when the east did nothing to help against the Germans and Scandinavians who troubled the west.
It was customary for the early Scandinavian kings to be known by some distinguishing characteristic.
Scandinavian panicled oats, Moldavian corn, Italian cinquantino corn, and the North American and Soviet varieties of corn, grown in southern Russia and the Mississippi lowlands.
The great Sharr, looming unusually large and tall in the Scandinavian mountain-scene, grey of shadow and glancing with sun-gleams that rent the thick veils of mist-cloud, assumed a manner of Ossianic grandeur.
We did so by mailing press kits to the media people, including samples of products, literature, ad reprints and an invitation to a large pressevent at the most famous Scandinavian restaurant in New York City.
A magician incorporated the products and the Scandinavian theme into his performancephotos were taken and there were contests with prizes that included trips to Denmark.
He was the Apollo of the Scandinavians, and is represented in the Voluspa as destined to slay the monstrous snake.
Tunis, when they saw the boats on the far edge of the water, a series of dots moving south: Scandinavian yachts and large Dutch houseboats, ancient Arab dhows and Indian baghlas, Chinese junks and Somalian sambuks.
It all went back, Jim knew, to something the dragons had always considered an insult: the fact that the early Vikings and other Scandinavian seafarers had used to take down the dragon-heads of their ships when they came into shore, because they thought the sight of the dragon heads would infuriate the trolls of the land.
And these four rivers, as we have seen, we find in the Scandinavian traditions, and in the legends of the Chinese, the Tartars, the Singhalese, the Thibetians, the Buddhists, the Hebrews, and the Brahmans.