Greenland

From green +‎ land, calque of Old Norse Grǿnland, from grǿnn (“green”) +‎ land (“land”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹiːn.lənd/, /ˈɡɹiːn.lænd/

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Greenland

2. A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America.
   • 2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 July 2020:

     What’s been less well understood is how President Trump’s idle musing has added another chapter to the long history of Greenland and its people being viewed simply as a resource to be exploited by larger powers.

3. The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
   • 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:

     To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.

   • 2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 July 2020:

     Modern Danish colonization of Greenland began with what today might also seem like a joke.

4. (obsolete) Spitzbergen, another island in Europe formerly thought to have been part of Greenland.
5. A surname.
6. A city in Arkansas.
7. A village in Barbados.
8. A ghost town in California.
9. An unincorporated community in Colorado.
10. A town in New Hampshire.
11. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
12. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.

• Engerland, Englander

Calque of Old Norse Grœnland, from grœnn (“green”) + land (“land”).

Greenland

1. Greenland (a large self-governing island and dependent territory of Denmark, in North America)