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Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
The name given by the Icelandic Norseman Leif Erikson to the portion of North America in modern-day Labrador, Canada when he arrived there circa 1000 AD.
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name
A surname.
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name
A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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name
An unincorporated community in Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.
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noun
An old Scots unit of measure equal to eight ouncelands.
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History
From Old Norse, coined by Leif Ericson, circa 1000 AD, compound of mark + land.
From mark + land.
