Greenland
['grinlənd]
Definition
(noun.) the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark.
Typist: Lolita--From WordNet
Examples
- In this summer weather, it was hot as Africa; as in winterit was always cold as Greenland. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world, and the baleen, or whalebone, one of its greatest peculiarities. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Over these northern areas there spread and receded and spread again a great ice cap such as covers central Greenland to-day (see Map, on page 77). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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