HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
Back to search

Greenland

Noun CEFR B2
ˈɡɹiːn.lənd

Definitions

  1. A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America.
  2. The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
  3. Spitzbergen, another island in Europe formerly thought to have been part of Greenland.
  4. A surname.
  5. A city in Arkansas.
  6. A village in Barbados.
  7. A ghost town in California.
  8. An unincorporated community in Colorado.
  9. A town in New Hampshire.
  10. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
  11. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.

Equivalents

EspañolGroenlandia
FrançaisGroenland
DeutschGrönland
45 more languages

Examples

“What’s been less well understood is how President Trump’s idle musing has added another chapter to the long history of Greenland and its people being viewed simply as a resource to be exploited by larger powers.”
“To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.”
Modern Danish colonization of Greenland began with what today might also seem like a joke.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See all B2 English words →

See also

Learn this word in context

See Greenland used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course

Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free