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'''Nordic''' means "[[northerly]]" or "[[northern]]" and usually refers to a region of [[Northern Europe]] called the ''[[Nordic countries]]''. However there are several other related meanings:
* [[Scandinavia]]n or [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] ([[Teutonic]]).<ref>adj. 2 from [http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Query=nordic&Strategy=*&Database=wn Wordnet 2.0]; adj. 1 from ''[[Century Dictionary|New Century Dictionary]]''. (1963). New York:[[Meredith Publishing Company|Appleton-Century-Crofts]], Inc. [[Library of Congress|LOC]] No. 62-20970</ref>
* of or relating to the family of [[North Germanic]] languages.<ref>adj. 1 from [http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Query=nordic&Strategy=*&Database=wn Wordnet 2.0]</ref>
* referring to people of early European tribes that were of Scandinavian descent and co-existed in parts of Northern Europe during the age of the Roman Empire.
* "a physical type characterized by tall stature, long head, light skin and hair, and blue eyes."<ref>adj. 2 from Webster's 7th dictionary</ref>
Associated or derived terms include:
* [[Nordic aliens]] (or [[Nordic aliens|Nords]])
* [[Nordic Bronze Age]]
* [[Nordic Council]] / [[Nordic Council of Ministers]]
* [[Nordic Cross Flag]]
* [[Nordic combined]]
* [[Nordic gold]]
* [[Nordic languages]]
* [[Nordic League]] (a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[far right]] organization)
* [[Nordic Optical Telescope]]
* [[Nordic race]] or [[Norsemen]]
* [[Nordic skiing]]
* [[Nordic theory]], or [[Nordicism]] (the belief that Northern Europeans constitute a "master race")
* [[Nordic walking]]
* [[Nordic Agrarian parties]]
* [[Risto Hieta]] ("Nordic the Incurable")
* The [[Norwegian Sea]], the [[Greenland Sea]] and the [[Icelandic Sea]] are sometimes collectively referred to as the [[Nordic Seas]].
==See also==
*[[Norse]]
== References ==
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