Odense

English

St. Canute's Cathedral in Odense

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish Odense.

Proper noun

Odense

1. The largest city in the Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark) and third-largest city in Denmark.
2. Odense Municipality (Odense Kommune), the municipality of which the city of Odense is administrative centre.
   • 2005, Carsten Greve, Niels Ejersbo, Contracts as Reinvented Institutions in the Public Sector‎^[1], Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger), page 91:

     In the policy document, Odense municipality listed several matters to be considered when deciding what to put up for contracting. […] The policy document gives the broad guidelines for contracting out in Odense.

3. Odense, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas, United States, named after the Danish city.

Derived terms

• City of Odense

Translations

city in southern Denmark

• Danish: Odense (da)
• Faroese: Odense
• Finnish: Odense
• French: Odense (fr)
• German: Odense (de), Ottensee
• Icelandic: Óðinsvé n pl
• Latin: Othania, Othenae, Othima, Ottinium, Ottonia, Odini
• Norwegian: Odense (no)
• Polish: (indeclinable) Odense n
• Russian: О́денсе m (Ódense)
• Swedish: Odense

Anagrams

• Edones, Sedeno, donees

Danish

Etymology

Originally Odins vi ("shrine of Odin"), whence also Vojens (a town in Southern Jutland). Compare Old Norse Óðinn and vé (“temple, sanctuary”). The surrounding area was known as a sanctuary for worshippers of Odin. (See Odense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈoˀðənə], [ˈoðˀn̩sə], local pronunciation IPA^(key): [ˈoːonsə],

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Proper noun

Odense

1. Odense (third-largest city in Denmark) and largest city in Region Syddanmark.
2. The capital of the eponymous municipality in which it is located.

Related terms

• odenseaner