Sweden is the Nordic country of Stockholm and flat-pack furniture. Travel to Sweden, made in Sweden, the Swedish coast.
It is the largest Nordic country, mostly forest, with the great majority of its people in the south. It stayed out of both world wars and out of NATO until 2024. Swedish is the language, and English is very widely spoken. Note Swede as the demonym and Swedish as the adjective; and that the swede, the root vegetable, is named after the country.
1nounswedenA country in northern Europe.
“Sweden has about ten and a half million people.”
sweden is a country.
Middle Dutch
Sweden
Scots
Swethin
English
Sweden
English, today
sweden
Sweden Scots Swethin, Swadne (also Swaden), from Middle Dutch Sweden, dative of Swede. Originally used to refer to the people before the late 1600s, later displaced native Swēoland, Swēoþēod literally “Swede nation”, and Swēorīċe literally “Swede kingdom” to refer to the country.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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