Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the Scandinavian people inhabiting the Faroe Islands.
- noun The North Germanic language spoken by the inhabitants of the Faroe Islands.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Faroe islands, or to their language or inhabitants.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of the Faroe islands, a group of islands belonging to Denmark, lying midway between the Shetland islands and Iceland.
- noun A Scandinavian dialect spoken in the Faroe islands.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or pertaining to the
Faroe Islands , Faroese people or the Faroese language - noun A person from the
Faroe Islands , Faroe Islander - proper noun The language of the
Faroe Islands , closely related toIcelandic , and more distantly to Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands
Etymologies
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Examples
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Selkies are creatures found in Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish mythology.
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Living languages descended from North Germanic include Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Living languages descended from North Germanic include Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Torshavn, Faroe Islands -- Last week I had the opportunity to travel with a team of marine conservationists and film makers to screen the new documentary, Confessions of a Eco-Terrorist in the heart of the Faroese capitol of roughly 19,000 inhabitants.
Deborah Bassett: Faroe Islands Whale Slaughter Sparks International Controversy Deborah Bassett 2011
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Several local fisherman and whalers attended the film screening in order to defend the centuries-old cultural pastime, which the Faroese claim is still carried out for subsistence even though local scientists continue to warn of the serious risks of whale meat consumption.
Deborah Bassett: Faroe Islands Whale Slaughter Sparks International Controversy Deborah Bassett 2011
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But recently younger Faroese directors have been nurturing a small but growing film culture.
Filming on Top of the World Kristin M. Jones 2011
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Torshavn, Faroe Islands -- Last week I had the opportunity to travel with a team of marine conservationists and film makers to screen the new documentary, Confessions of a Eco-Terrorist in the heart of the Faroese capitol of roughly 19,000 inhabitants.
Deborah Bassett: Faroe Islands Whale Slaughter Sparks International Controversy Deborah Bassett 2011
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Several local fisherman and whalers attended the film screening in order to defend the centuries-old cultural pastime, which the Faroese claim is still carried out for subsistence even though local scientists continue to warn of the serious risks of whale meat consumption.
Deborah Bassett: Faroe Islands Whale Slaughter Sparks International Controversy Deborah Bassett 2011
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Several local fisherman and whalers attended the film screening in order to defend the centuries-old cultural pastime, which the Faroese claim is still carried out for subsistence even though local scientists continue to warn of the serious risks of whale meat consumption.
Deborah Bassett: Faroe Islands Whale Slaughter Sparks International Controversy Deborah Bassett 2011
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Torshavn, Faroe Islands -- Last week I had the opportunity to travel with a team of marine conservationists and film makers to screen the new documentary, Confessions of a Eco-Terrorist in the heart of the Faroese capitol of roughly 19,000 inhabitants.
Deborah Bassett: Faroe Islands Whale Slaughter Sparks International Controversy Deborah Bassett 2011
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