Word info

Stockholm

Speech parts

1. Stockholm - Verb

2. Stockholm - Proper noun

Meaning

A municipality, the capital and largest city of Sweden; county seat of Stockholm County, Sweden.

(metonymically) The Swedish government.

A county of Sweden.

Stockholm (third-person singular simple present Stockholms, present participle Stockholming, simple past and past participle Stockholmed)

To suffer from Stockholm syndrome; to form an emotional bond or identification with one's captor or oppressor, also, to form such a bond with one's victim.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet. Andy Warhol

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. George Stigler

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks. Patty Hearst

Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Alfred de Zayas

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey. Chris Bohjalian

Stop it. Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend. J.R. Ward

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