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Malmo

Malmo

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A city and port in southern Sweden across the sea from Copenhagen
  • proper noun
  • /ˈmælmoʊ/
: Malmö
  • Experts consider the Barseback plant, located a mere 20 kilometers from Malmo and Copenhagen, to be one of the worst situated nuclear power stations in the world.
  • Malmo Konsthall

Examples

  • Many tourists enjoy cycling along the waterfront in Malmo, Sweden.

  • Now 31, he has sailed, at times disdainfully, through a sporting career that he once almost abandoned in favor of working at the Malmo docks.

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  • In fact, I would love to send you on a nighttime walk in Malmo.

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  • Indeed, for the subsequent installation at the Malmo Konsthall in Sweden, this organic and collaborative process was reduced to the bare minimum.

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  • Patients and controls were enrolled by 11 centers from nine countries (Leiden, Barcelona, Bologna, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Malmo, Paris, Rome, Sheffield, Tel-Hashomer, Vienna).

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  • The senior pair of Lejla Heco (Malmo, Sweden) and Morgan Milleisen (Bayport, N.Y.) took part as a doubles team, as well as taking on singles matches.

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  • The contest was friendly, marking the opening of the new national stadium of Sweden—and Ibra, the son of a Bosnian father and a Croatian mother who had settled near Malmo before he was born, was clearly intent on leaving his mark on a historic occasion.

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  • He has always scored goals, often out of thin air, in a career that took him from Malmo to Ajax Amsterdam, then Juventus, to both Milan teams (Inter and A.C.), briefly to Barcelona, and now to Paris Saint-Germain.

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  • During our trip to Malmo, we visited the Turning Torso, a famous skyscraper.

  • The facilities at Malmo, Sweden's southern immigration headquarters, are overwhelmed.

Surface Forms

Malmo main

Etymology

Malmo comes from old Scandinavian words malm ('sand' or 'gravel') and -ö ('island'). So the name originally meant a 'sand island', which fits Malmo's location as a coastal port city.