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Sandefjord

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Proper noun

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Sandefjord

  1. A town with bystatus and municipality of Vestfold, Norway. It was enlarged on 1 January 2017 when the municipalities of Andebu and Stokke were merged with it.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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 Sandefjord kommune on Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia

Etymology

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From a fjord name.

Proper noun

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Sandefjord m (definite Sandefjorden)

  1. A town with bystatus and municipality of Vestfold, Norway. It was enlarged on 1 January 2017 when the municipalities of Andebu and Stokke were merged with it.
  2. (definite form) Synonym of Sandefjordsfjorden

Usage notes

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In 2006, there was a debate about changing the name of the pleonasm Sandefjordsfjord to Sandefjorden (definite form), but ended with no change.

Derived terms

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Norwegian Sandefjord.

Proper noun

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Sandefjord m (definite Sandefjorden)

  1. A town and municipality of Vestfold, Norway.

Derived terms

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