Denmark
DEN-mark/ˈdɛn.mɑɹk/UKDEN-mahk/ˈdɛn.mɑːk/
- 1A country in Northern Europe. Its capital city is Copenhagen.
We took a ferry from Germany to Denmark last summer.
Many people in Denmark ride bikes to work every day.
- 2A nation made up of Denmark itself, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland.
Denmark includes Greenland, so part of it lies far up in the Arctic.
People from the Faroe Islands are citizens of Denmark.
- 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
The name comes from Danish Danmark, made from dansk meaning "Danish" plus an Old Norse word for a boundary or borderland.