# Sweden

Pronunciation: say "SWEE-duhn" US /ˈswi.dən/, UK /ˈswiː.dən/

## Proper noun

1. A northern European nation on the Scandinavian Peninsula, whose official name is the Kingdom of Sweden.
   - Simple: A country in northern Europe, part of the region called Scandinavia.
   - _Sweden shares a long border with Norway to the west._
   - _Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is spread across fourteen islands._

## Origin

Borrowed from Scots Swethin, Swadne (also Swaden), from Middle Dutch Sweden, the dative of Swede. It was originally used for the people before the late 1600s, and later replaced the native Old English names Swēoland ('Swede land'), Swēoþēod ('Swede nation'), and Swēorīċe ('Swede kingdom') as the name of the country.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sweden (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).