Irland.
Ireland; an island of Europe, in the northern Atlantic Ocean, divided between the country of the same name and Northern Ireland.
Meaning & usage
Ireland; an island of Europe, in the northern Atlantic Ocean, divided between the country of the same name and Northern Ireland.
Øya Irland er delt mellom Irland og Nord-Irland.
Ireland; a country in Europe, occupying most of the island of the same name, with Dublin as its capital.
Dublin er hovedstaden i Irland.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Norse Írland, from Írar (“Irishmen”) + land (“land”), literally “land of the Irish”. The first element was borrowed from Old Irish Ériu (“Ireland”), whose deeper origin is uncertain. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk Irland, Danish Irland, Swedish Irland, Faroese Írland and Icelandic Írland (“Ireland”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.