Odense

Borrowed from Danish Odense.

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, 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.

• City of Odense

• Edones, Sedeno, donees

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 )

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

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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.

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