Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Norway or its people, language, or culture.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Norway.
  • noun A person of Norwegian ancestry.
  • noun Dano-Norwegian.
  • noun New Norwegian.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Norway; belonging to, found in, or derived from Norway.
  • noun A native of Norway, a kingdom of Europe in the western part of the Scandinavian peninsula, which since 1814 has been united with Sweden under a common sovereign, but has a separate parliament and administration.
  • noun The language of Norway.
  • noun A kind of fishing-boat used on the Great Lakes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Norway, its inhabitants, or its language.
  • proper noun A native of Norway.
  • proper noun That branch of the Scandinavian language spoken in Norway.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun The language of Norway.
  • noun A native of Norway.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Norway (the country)
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Norwegian people
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Norwegian language

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a native or inhabitant of Norway
  • adjective of or relating to Norway or its people or culture or language
  • noun a Scandinavian language that is spoken in Norway

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Medieval Latin Norvegia, Norway (influenced by Norway), from Old Norse Norvegr : perhaps nordhr, north; see ner- in Indo-European roots + vegr, region; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Medieval Latin Norwegia + -ian.

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Examples

  • For norwegian media students out there: The Norwegian board of research would like applications for journalistic/information projects concerned with the natural sciences.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Torill 2005

  • For norwegian media students out there: The Norwegian board of research would like applications for journalistic/information projects concerned with the natural sciences.

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  • “Behind the scenes” supplying soccer-statistics is the norwegian website for Norwegian and International Soccer-statistics – NIFS.

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  • News-teams from most of the norwegian media were outside the largest Norwegian hospital in Oslo, covering the collapse of Torbjørn Jagland, leader of the Labour Party.

    thinking with my fingers Torill 2002

  • NRK NORWEGIAN TELEVISION: You have been very critical of the Norwegian government before.

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  • A NORWEGIAN journalist and his Afghan interpreter who were kidnapped last week in eastern Afghanistan have been released, Afghan and Norwegian officials said today.

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  • A NORWEGIAN journalist and his Afghan interpreter who were kidnapped last week in eastern Afghanistan have been released, Afghan and Norwegian officials said today.

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  • A NORWEGIAN journalist and his Afghan interpreter who were kidnapped last week in eastern Afghanistan have been released, Afghan and Norwegian officials said today.

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  • If any of our 17 Norwegian readers (Heisann, Opphavsmann-venns!) wanted to use a black metal song and enter in Norwegian we would probably invent a special prize just for that person.

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • A Norwegian film (in Norwegian) with zombie Nazis.

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