scandinavia

Other forms of scandinavia

plural

scandinavias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scandinavia

What does scandinavia mean?

scandinavia means "the peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scandinavia?

scandinavia has 5 syllables: scan-di-na-vi-a. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˌskændɪˈneɪviə/.

What is another word for scandinavia?

Close synonyms include Scandinavian Peninsula. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scandinavia a common word?

scandinavia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.