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Icelander

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈaɪs.lənd.ə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈaɪs.lənd.ɚ/

1

noun

Meaning 1

A person of a North Germanic ethnic group native to Scandinavia, comprising the ethnic majority of Iceland.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a native or inhabitant of Iceland

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: European

History

Etymology

From Iceland + -er. Displaced older Middle English Iselandman (“Icelander”, literally “Iceland man, Iceland person”).

Across languages

Translations

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: Yslander — person from Iceland
  • Albanian: islandez — person from Iceland
  • Arabic: آيِسْلَنْدِيّ (ʔāyislandiyy) — person from Iceland
  • Arabic: آيِسْلَنْدِيَّة (ʔāyislandiyya) — person from Iceland
  • Arabic: أَيْسْلَنْدِيّ (ʔayslandiyy) — person from Iceland
  • Arabic: أَيْسْلَنْدِيَّة (ʔayslandiyya) — person from Iceland
  • Armenian: իսլանդացի (islandacʻi) — person from Iceland
  • Asturian: islandés — person from Iceland
  • Asturian: islandesa — person from Iceland
  • Azerbaijani: islandiyalı — person from Iceland
  • Basque: islandiar — person from Iceland
  • Belarusian: ісла́ндзец (islándzjec) — person from Iceland
  • Belarusian: ісла́ндка (islándka) — person from Iceland
  • Belarusian: ісьля́ндзец (isʹljándzjec) — person from Iceland
  • Belarusian: ісьля́ндка (isʹljándka) — person from Iceland
  • Bulgarian: исла́ндец (islándec) — person from Iceland
  • Bulgarian: исла́ндка (islándka) — person from Iceland
  • Catalan: islandès — person from Iceland
  • Catalan: islandesa — person from Iceland
  • Catalan: islandés — person from Iceland
  • Catalan: islandesa — person from Iceland
  • Chinese Mandarin: 冰島人 /冰岛人 (Bīngdǎorén) — person from Iceland
  • Czech: Islanďan — person from Iceland
  • Czech: Islanďanka — person from Iceland
  • Danish: islænding — person from Iceland
  • Dutch: IJslander — person from Iceland
  • Dutch: IJslandse — person from Iceland
  • Esperanto: islandano — person from Iceland
  • Esperanto: islandanino — person from Iceland
  • Estonian: islandlane — person from Iceland
  • Estonian: islandlanna — person from Iceland
  • Faroese: íslendingur — person from Iceland
  • Finnish: islantilainen — person from Iceland
  • French: Islandais — person from Iceland
  • French: Islandaise — person from Iceland
  • West-Frisian: Yslanner — person from Iceland
  • Galician: islandés — person from Iceland
  • Galician: islandesa — person from Iceland
  • Georgian: ისლანდიელი (islandieli) — person from Iceland
  • German: Isländer — person from Iceland
  • German: Isländerin — person from Iceland
  • Greek: Ισλανδός (Islandós) — person from Iceland
  • Greek: Ισλανδή (Islandí) — person from Iceland
  • Greek: Ισλανδέζα (Islandéza) — person from Iceland
  • Hebrew: אִיסְלַנְדִּי (islándi) — person from Iceland
  • Hebrew: אִיסְלַנְדִּית (islandít) — person from Iceland
  • Hindi: आइसलैंड वासी (āislaiṇḍ vāsī) — person from Iceland
  • Hungarian: izlandi — person from Iceland
  • Icelandic: Íslendingur — person from Iceland
  • Irish: Íoslannach — person from Iceland
  • Italian: islandese — person from Iceland
  • Japanese: アイスランド人 (aisurandojin) — person from Iceland
  • Kazakh: исландиялық (islandiälyq) — person from Iceland
  • Kazakh: исланд (island) — person from Iceland
  • Korean: 아이슬란드인 (aiseullandeu'in) — person from Iceland
  • Korean: 아이슬란드 사람 (aiseullandeu saram) — person from Iceland
  • Kyrgyz: исланд (island) — person from Iceland
  • Kyrgyz: исландиялык (islandiyalık) — person from Iceland
  • Latvian: islandietis — person from Iceland
  • Latvian: islandiete — person from Iceland
  • Lithuanian: islandas — person from Iceland
  • Lithuanian: islándė — person from Iceland
  • Low German: Ieslänner — person from Iceland
  • Low German: Ieslandsche — person from Iceland
  • Low German: Ieslannsche — person from Iceland
  • Low German: Ieslännerin — person from Iceland
  • Macedonian: Исланѓанец (Islanǵanec) — person from Iceland
  • Macedonian: Исланѓанка (Islanǵanka) — person from Iceland
  • Manx: Eeslynnagh — person from Iceland
  • Norwegian Bokmål: islending — person from Iceland
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: islending — person from Iceland
  • Occitan: islandés — person from Iceland
  • Occitan: islandesa — person from Iceland
  • Persian: ایسلندی (islandi) — person from Iceland
  • Portuguese: islandês — person from Iceland
  • Portuguese: islandesa — person from Iceland
  • Romanian: islandez — person from Iceland
  • Romanian: islandeză — person from Iceland
  • Russian: исла́ндец (islándec) — person from Iceland
  • Russian: исла́ндка (islándka) — person from Iceland
  • Scottish Gaelic: Tìleach — person from Iceland
  • Serbo-Croatian: Исла́нђанин — person from Iceland
  • Serbo-Croatian: Исланђанка — person from Iceland
  • Serbo-Croatian: Islánđanin — person from Iceland
  • Serbo-Croatian: Islanđanka — person from Iceland
  • Slovak: Islanďan — person from Iceland
  • Slovak: Islanďanka — person from Iceland
  • Slovene: Islandec — person from Iceland
  • Slovene: Islandka — person from Iceland
  • Spanish: islandés — person from Iceland
  • Spanish: islandesa — person from Iceland
  • Swahili: Mwaisilandi — person from Iceland
  • Swedish: islänning — person from Iceland
  • Swedish: isländska — person from Iceland
  • Tajik: исландӣ (islandi) — person from Iceland
  • Turkish: İzlandalı — person from Iceland
  • Turkmen: islandiýaly — person from Iceland
  • Turkmen: island — person from Iceland
  • Ukrainian: ісла́ндець (islándecʹ) — person from Iceland
  • Ukrainian: ісла́ндка (islándka) — person from Iceland
  • Uyghur: ئىسلاندىيىلىك (islandiyilik) — person from Iceland
  • Uzbek: island — person from Iceland
  • Uzbek: islandiyalik — person from Iceland
  • Volapük: Lisladeänan — person from Iceland
  • Volapük: hi-Lisladeänan — person from Iceland
  • Volapük: ji-Lisladeänan — person from Iceland