sluss

Swedish

Noun

sluss c

  1. (nautical) a lock (used for raising and lowering vessels in a canal or other waterway)
  2. (figuratively) a mechanism that lets someone/something through, a lock
    luftsluss
    airlock
  3. (figuratively) a floodgate (with a large figurative outpouring of something if opened)
    öppna slussarna
    open the floodgates
  4. (in the definite "slussen", normally capitalized) Slussen (area in central Stockholm)

Declension

Declension of sluss
nominative genitive
singular indefinite sluss sluss
definite slussen slussens
plural indefinite slussar slussars
definite slussarna slussarnas

Derived terms

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.