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語源

From green +‎ land, calque of Old Norse Grǿnland, from grǿnn (“green”) +‎ land (“land”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɡɹiːn.lənd/, /ˈɡɹiːn.lænd/

固有名詞

Greenland

1. A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America.
   • 2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 16 July 2020:

     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.

2. The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
   • 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:

     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.

   • 2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 16 July 2020:

     Modern Danish colonization of Greenland began with what today might also seem like a joke.

3. (obsolete) 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.

派生語

アナグラム

• Engerland, Englander