: of, relating to, or characteristic of Finland, the Finns, or Finnish
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Chad De Guzman, Time, 8 July 2025
By morning, three Finnish teenagers were dead beside Lake Bodom, the lone survivor was barely conscious — and the assailant had vanished.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 8 July 2025
Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Finland’s 1919 constitution made provision for Swedish, which is still used by about 5% of the population, as a national language alongside Finnish.
—Thomas A. Dubois, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
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Adjective
Trump has also previously been nominated by a Finnish member of the European Parliament in 2020, a group of Australian professors in 2020, a far-right Norwegian lawmaker in 2018 and 2020, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2019, and an unidentified American in 2016.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 8 July 2025
By morning, three Finnish teenagers were dead beside Lake Bodom, the lone survivor was barely conscious — and the assailant had vanished.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
After 80 years, Jansson’s great-nephew Thomas Zambra, director of business development at Moomin Characters Ltd., thinks the time is right for a Finnish Invasion.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Finland’s 1919 constitution made provision for Swedish, which is still used by about 5% of the population, as a national language alongside Finnish.
—Thomas A. Dubois, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
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“Finnish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Finnish. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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Finnish
1 of 2 adjective
Finn·ish
ˈfin-ish 
: of, relating to, or characteristic of Finland, the Finns, or Finnish
Finnish
2 of 2 noun
: a language of the Finns
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