Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of eastern Denmark in the Baltic Sea near Sweden. It was held for varying periods by Denmark, Sweden, and Lübeck merchants before becoming part of Denmark in the 1600s.
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- proper noun a Danish island in the Baltic Sea
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Denmark, the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm remains the worst hit by the snow.
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Denmarktotal: 43,094 sq km land: 42,394 sq km water: 700 sq km note: includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland
Area 2008
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Area: total: 43,094 sq km land: 42,394 sq km water: 700 sq km note: includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland
Denmark 2008
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I have just put my little family on a flight to Bornholm to visit grandparents.
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Instead, the resourceful Tershkov suggested a closer alternative: a patch of 100-meter-deep water just off the tiny island of Kristanso, east of the Danish island of Bornholm.
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I have just put my little family on a flight to Bornholm to visit grandparents.
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The pipeline's projected route passes close to two of Tershkov's dumps, in the Gotland and Bornholm basins.
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I was asked last decade! to be part of these projects by a tourism academic who wanted to set up viking cruise tours with the Centre for Regional and Tourism Research, Bornholm--not sure what happened there.
Why Fantasy? 2007
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I have just put my little family on a flight to Bornholm to visit grandparents.
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Sweden received the provinces of Skåne, Halland, Blekinge, Bohuslän, Trondheim (Norway), and the island of Bornholm.
h. Scandinavia 2001
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