English Explanatory Dictionary

Norwegianization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population.
  2. The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form.

Word forms

Norwegianization Norwegianizations Norwegianisation

Etymology

From Norwegian + -ization.

Related words

Norwegianize
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