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denmark

UK/ˈdɛn.mɑːk/US/ˈdɛn.mɑɹk/
nounA2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,413 of 15,258leans written

Denmark is the small Nordic country of Copenhagen and colourful toy bricks. Live in Denmark, from Denmark, the coast of Denmark.

It is a peninsula and some four hundred islands, and no point in it is much more than fifty kilometres from the sea. Lego was founded there in 1932 and the name is a contraction of two Danish words meaning play well. Denmark also governs Greenland and the Faroes as self-ruling parts of the realm.

Definitions of denmark

  1. 1noundenmarkThe small Nordic country of Copenhagen.A2+

    “Denmark is joined to Sweden by a long bridge and tunnel.”

denmark is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. Old Norse

    Danmǫrk

  2. Old English

    Denemearc

  3. Middle English

    Denemarke

  4. English

    Denmark

  5. English, today

    denmark

Denmark comes from Middle English Denemarke, Denmarke, from Old English Denemearc, from Dene + mearc, a Old Norse Danmǫrk.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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