Sweden

Borrowed from Scots Swethin, Swadne (also Swaden), from Middle Dutch Sweden, dative of Swede. Originally used to refer to the people before the late 1600s, later displaced native Old English Swēoland (literally “Swede land”), Swēoþēod (literally “Swede nation”), and Swēorīċe (literally “Swede kingdom”) to refer to the country.^[1][2]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈswiː.dən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈswi.dən/

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• Rhymes: -iːdən

Sweden

2. A country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Sweden.

   People often mix up Sweden and Switzerland.

   • 2025 August 5, Elisabeth Buchwald, “Trump says Scott Bessent no longer in the running for Fed chair”, in CNN Business‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 August 2025:

     Bessent has also been spearheading trade negotiations. Last week he traveled to Sweden to meet with Chinese trade officials to discuss extending the current tariff rates in place on both countries’ goods. This comes as there’s a looming August 12 deadline for the two sides to extend rates or face higher tariffs.

• Silicon Valley of Sweden
• Swede
• Sweden and Norway
• Swedish

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• Suecophile

• endews, newsed, snewed

Borrowed from English Sweden.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsweːdɛn/

Sweden m

1. Sweden (a country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe)

   Synonym: Swedherwyk

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈswɛdɛn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈsweːdɛn/, /ˈswɛdɛn/
• Homophone: sweden (“peritoneum”)
• Rhymes: -eːdɛn

Sweden f (not mutable)

1. Sweden (a country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe)

• Teyrnas Sweden (“Kingdom of Sweden”)