Sweden

proper nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈswiː.dən//
United States//ˈswi.dən//

A country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Sweden.

proper noun

1
A country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Sweden.
People often mix up Sweden and Switzerland.
Bessent has also been spearheading trade negotiations. Last week he traveled to Sweden to meet with Chinese trade officials to discuss extending the current tariff rates in place on both countries’ goods. This comes as there’s a looming August 12 deadline for the two sides to extend rates or face higher tariffs.
2
A place in the United States, including
3
A place in the United States, including: A town in Monroe County, New York.

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots Swethin, Swadne (also Swaden), from Middle Dutch Sweden, dative of Swede. Originally used to refer to the people before the late 1600s, later displaced native Old English Swēoland (literally “Swede land”), Swēoþēod (literally “Swede nation”), and Swēorīċe (literally “Swede kingdom”) to refer to the country.

sweaty · Covered in sweat.swede · The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rapeseed, Brassica…Swede · A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.

Sweden · A country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Sweden.

Swedish · A North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and…Sweeney · A surname from Irish.sweep · To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom…

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.