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Lapland

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Lap·land  (lplnd, -lnd)
A region of extreme northern Europe including northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland and the Kola Peninsula of northwest Russia. It is largely within the Arctic Circle.
Lapland·er n.
Lapland [ˈlæpˌlænd]
n
(Placename) an extensive region of N Europe, mainly within the Arctic Circle: consists of the N parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the extreme NW of Russia Also called (informal) Land of the Midnight Sun
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Noun1.LaplandLapland - a region in northmost Europe inhabited by Lapps
Lappland
Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
Lapp, Lapplander, Saame, Saami, Same, Sami - a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer
Translations
Lapland [ˈlæplænd] N → Laponia f
Lapland [ˈlæplænd] n → Laponie f
lap of honour n (British) → tour m d'honneur
Lapland
n → Lappland nt
Lapland [ˈlæpˌlænd] n → Lapponia
Lapland [ˈlæpˌlænd] n → Lapponia


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Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with "the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,--that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
`But I thought Lapland women were fat and ugly, and had squint eyes, like Chinese?
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
Many a church member saw I, walking behind the music, that has danced in the same measure with me, when Somebody was fiddler, and, it might be, an Indian powwow or a Lapland wizard changing hands with us
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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