CARELIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carelian mean? 

• CARELIAN (noun)
  The noun CARELIAN has 2 senses:

1. a member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia

2. a Finnic language spoken by the people of Karelia

  Familiarity information: CARELIAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARELIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Carelian; Karelian

Hypernyms ("Carelian" is a kind of...):

Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)

Holonyms ("Carelian" is a member of...):

Karelia (a region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Finnic language spoken by the people of Karelia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Carelian; Karelian

Hypernyms ("Carelian" is a kind of...):

Baltic-Finnic (a group of Finnic languages including Finnish and Estonian)