Norway vs America - What's the difference?
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One of the Scandinavian countries. Official name: Kingdom of Norway (Kongeriket Norge'' in and ''Kongeriket Noreg in Nynorsk).
A CDP in Indiana
A city in Iowa
A town in Maine
A city in Michigan
A town in New York
A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada
A town in South Carolina
A town in Wisconsin
The continents of North and South America, especially when considered to form a single continent; the Americas
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity (Penguin 2010), page 691:
The United States of America.
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As a proper noun norway
is one of the scandinavian countries official name: kingdom of norway (kongeriket norge'' in and ''kongeriket noreg in nynorsk).As an adjective america is
american.norway
English
(wikipedia Norway)Proper noun
(en proper noun)Derived terms
* Central Norway * Church of Norway * East Norway * Eastern Norway * New Norway * North Norway * Northern Norway * Norway House, Manitoba, Canada * ) * Norway maple (Acer platanoides ) * Norway pine (Pinus resinosa ) * ) * Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus ) * ) * Norway spruce (Picea abies ) * South Norway * Southern Norway * West Norway * Western NorwaySee also
* * * * Austland, Austlandet * Midt-Noreg * Midt-Norge * Nordaustland, Nordaustlandet * * Nordvestland, Nordvestlandet * * * * * * Vestland, Vestlandetamerica
English
Alternative forms
*(North and South America) *(the United States of America) (humourous) (sometimes derogatory)Proper noun
(Americas)- Franciscan attitudes in the Canaries offered possible precedents for what Europe now came to call ‘the New World’, or, through a somewhat tangled chain of circumstances, ‘America ’.
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