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  • noun Plural form of Norwegian.

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Examples

  • Although there was nothing in the statutes that prevented the Storting from naming international members, the members of the Nobel Committee of the Storting (as the committee was called until 1977) have all been Norwegians from the very beginning.

    The Nobel Peace Prize 1901-2000 2001

  • Frank J. Sulloway of the Institute for Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley, welcomed what he called the Norwegians’ "elegantly designed" analysis.

    Firstborn Children Have Higher IQ than Siblings | Impact Lab 2007

  • But look across the graph and you will see that the Norwegians are also more producitve than the US.

    Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The Norwegians are a hospitable and festal people, and there is no question that the manager of the theatre would have unusual opportunities of being jolly with his friends.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • The Norwegians are a hospitable and festal people, and there is no question that the manager of the theatre would have unusual opportunities of being jolly with his friends.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • Santa rips off his beard, throws off his hat, call the Norwegians 'frigtards', and that's that.

    This made my day 2007

  • Most of them, however, belong to the Viking period, when Christianity was already beginning to influence the Norwegians, that is, between the years 800 and 1000.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • Santa rips off his beard, throws off his hat, call the Norwegians 'frigtards', and that's that.

    Twas the Night Before They Met Fake Steve 2007

  • Christianity was already beginning to influence the Norwegians, that is, between the years 800 and 1000.

    The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway

  • Esquimaux; and now I have formed their acquaintance personally, I feel assured that the Norwegians are a branch of that family.

    A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

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