Nordic 21847 186875225 2008-01-25T20:01:32Z Tobyc75 148125 Repairing link to disambiguation page - [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|You can help!]] {{Wiktionary}} '''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 == {{reflist}} {{disambig}} [[fr:Nordique (homonymie)]] [[ja:ノルディック]]