Nordic
['nɔ:dik]
Definition
(adj.) resembling peoples of Scandinavia .
(adj.) relating to Germany and Scandinavia; 'Hitler wanted Nordic people to rule Europe' .
(adj.) of or relating to or constituting the Scandinavian group of languages; 'Nordic languages have a gender system' .
Editor: Trudy--From WordNet
Examples
- All are fundamentally Gothic and Nordic peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Or the Nordic peoples also may have developed separately from a pal?olithic stage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They belonged mostly to the Caucasian group of races and to the blond and northern subdivision of the group, to the Nordic race that is. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her population was chiefly a Mongolian population, with some very interesting white people of a Nordic type, the Hairy Ainu, in the northern islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Practically, from the standpoint of universal history, all these peoples were the same people, waves of one Nordic stock. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The opposite school would treat the alleged Alpine race simply as a number of local brachycephalic varieties of Nordic or Iberian peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Nordic and the Mongolian peoples may have been but north-western and north-eastern branches from this more fundamental stem. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is only in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that we find the Nordic intelligence struggling through again to expression. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Northward, in Europe, the Aryan peoples were spreading into hitherto uninhabited country, and so remaining racially more purely Nordic blonds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They may be the last vestiges of an ancient primitive Pre-Nordic Pre-Mongolian strain from which the Nordic races are descended. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Philip was a king after the old pattern, a leader-king, first among his peers, of the ancient Nordic Aryan type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The original inhabitants of the Japanese Islands were probably a northern people with remote Nordic affinities, the Hairy Ainu. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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