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Nordic   /nˈɔrdɪk/   Listen
Nordic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or constituting the Scandinavian group of languages.
2.
Relating to Germany and Scandinavia.
3.
Resembling peoples of Scandinavia.
noun
1.
The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland.  Synonyms: Norse, North Germanic, North Germanic language, Scandinavian, Scandinavian language.






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"Nordic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mobile Telephone; an analog cellular telephone system that was developed jointly by the national telecommunications authorities of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Orbita - a Russian television service; also the trade name of a packet- switched digital ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... Wherever we find marked energy and nobleness of character, we may suspect Aryan blood; and history will usually support our surmise. Among the great men who were certainly or probably Germans were Agamemnon, Julius Caesar, the Founder of Christianity, Dante, and Shakespeare. The blond Nordic giant is fulfilling his mission by conquering and imposing his culture upon other races. They ought to be grateful to him for the service, especially as it has a sacrificial aspect, the lower types having, at least in their own climates, greater ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge

... white cross that extends to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side, and that design element of the Dannebrog (Danish flag) was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries of Finland, Iceland, ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... policy toward the "inner enemies," the dependents, the defectives, and the delinquents, and a foreign policy toward immigrant races and foreign peoples, on the general conception that the chief aim of society and the state is to preserve the germ plasm of the Nordic race.[331] For Spencer, however, the conception that all values were in the organism was modified by the conviction that all life was involved in an irreversible process called evolution which would eventually purge the race and society of the weak, ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... along Fifth Avenue, a Nordic Ganymede, her fur coat swinging fashionably with her steps, her cheeks redder by a stroke of the wind's brush, her breath a delightful mist upon the bracing air—and the doors of the Ritz would revolve, the crowd would divide, fifty masculine eyes ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald



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