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orientering.

orientation; inclination, direction, position; the ability to find one's way or to know precisely where one is located (also figuratively)

11 characters4 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɔrjɛn¹teːrɪŋ/
  1. orientation; inclination, direction, position; the ability to find one's way or to know precisely where one is located (also figuratively)

    common-gender
  2. orientation

    common-gender
  3. orientation; the act of orienting something

    common-gender
  4. an orientation, a briefing, a short summary

    common-gender
  5. orienteering; racing through unfamiliar terrain

    common-gender · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From orientera + -ing. According to the Svenska Orienteringsförbundet (Swedish Orienteering Federation), the first known written record of the word orientering in the sense of finding one's way in an unknown terrain with the aid of a map, is from a report by the director of Sweden's Royal War Academy at Karlberg, colonel H. Thulstrup, in 1886.

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