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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Finland or its people, language, or culture.
  • noun The Finno-Ugric language of the Finns.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Finland or its inhabitants, or the Finnic race.
  • noun The language spoken by the Finns proper, called by themselves Suomi.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Finland.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Finnish language.
  • proper noun The Finno-Ugric language spoken by the majority of the people living in Finland, one of the two official languages of the country (the other is Swedish).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Finland or the people of Finland
  • noun the official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages

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