Denmark
DEN-mark/ˈdɛn.mɑɹk/UKDEN-mahk/ˈdɛn.mɑːk/
- 1A country in Northern Europe whose capital and largest city is Copenhagen, and the metropole of the sovereign Kingdom of Denmark.
Denmark shares its only land border with Germany.
After years abroad, she moved back to Denmark and settled near Copenhagen.
- 2The Kingdom of Denmark as a whole, a sovereign state made up of Denmark proper, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland.
As a kingdom, Denmark stretches from the Baltic Sea to the Arctic Ocean.
In international treaties, Denmark signs on behalf of the entire realm, from Copenhagen to Nuuk.
- 3A surname.
- 4A town and local government area (Shire of Denmark) in the Great Southern region, Western Australia.
- 5A city in Bamberg County, South Carolina.
- 6A town in Oxford County, Maine.
- 7A town in Lewis County, New York.
- 8A census-designated place and township in Lee County, Iowa.
- 9A township in Tuscola County, Michigan.
- 10A township in Washington County, Minnesota.
- 11A township in Ashtabula County, Ohio.
- 12An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Ohio.
- 13An unincorporated community in Bulloch County, Georgia.
- 14An unincorporated community in Marion Township, Owen County, Indiana.
- 15An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Kansas.
- 16An unincorporated community in Curry County, Oregon.
- 17An unincorporated community and former city in Madison County, Tennessee.
- 18A village in the town of New Denmark, Brown County, Wisconsin.
- 19A community in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 20A parish in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada, named for the community of New Denmark.
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Origin
From Middle English Denmark, from Danish Danmark, which combines dansk ("Danish") with Old Norse merki ("boundary") or mǫrk ("borderland"). It is cognate with, and perhaps was influenced by, Old English Denemearc.