Synonyms for greenland
ˈgrin lənd, -ˌlændgreen·land

Princeton's WordNet

1. Greenland, Gronland, Kalaallit Nunaatnoun

   the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark

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1. • Atlantic
   • Island

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1. List of paraphrases for "greenland":

   harp, greenlandic, halibut

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1. United States:

   In the last few years, China has repeatedly tried to gain a strategic foothold in Greenland, by offering to buy a former United States military base there and through a financing scheme for airport construction. Purchasing it would keep it out of the hands of both the Chinese and the Russians. It is rich in national resources with untold economic potential and already extremely important to United States national security.

2. Ingo Sasgen:

   We have documented another record loss year for Greenland, what this shows is that the ice sheet is not only out of balance but it's increasingly likely to produce more and more extreme loss years.

3. Amex GBT:

   For example, a flight from Tokyo to London which now has to head east over the North Pacific, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland has to add 2.4 hours of flight time and is likely to burn around 5,600 gallons more fuel, a 20% increase.

4. Donald Trump:

   It turns out, Mr. Chairman, that those principals, as we call them, were on different trips at different times, i think this was also about the time of the Greenland question, about purchasing Greenland, which took up a lot of energy in the NSC.

5. Richard Alley:

   Clearly, the sea level rise from melting ice 12,000 years ago also affected people, but those people were much more widely spread out, and they didn't have parking garages and integrated modern water systems serving millions of people, these results say that human decisions about our energy systems are truly important in deciding how much sea level rise we face from melting of Greenland's ice.