FINLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Finland mean? 

• FINLAND (noun)
  The noun FINLAND has 1 sense:

1. republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917

  Familiarity information: FINLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Finland; Republic of Finland; Suomi

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Finland"):

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

capital of Finland; Finnish capital; Helsingfors; Helsinki (the capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center)

Espoo (a city in southern Finland)

Tammerfors; Tampere (an industrial city in south central Finland)

Aaland islands; Ahvenanmaa; Aland islands (an archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control)

Maarianhamina; Mariehamn (a town that is the chief port of the Aland islands)

Meronyms (members of "Finland"):

Finn (a native or inhabitant of Finland)

Holonyms ("Finland" is a part of...):

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

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

Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)

 Context examples 

Researchers from Emory University, University College London, and the University of Tampere in Finland explored whether variations in the genes for oxytocin and vasopressin receptors play a role.

(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)

For the study, the researchers looked at past studies on NSAIDs from Canada, Finland and the United Kingdom.

(Common Painkillers Linked to Increased Risk for Heart Attack, VOA)

The disease also has been found in South Korea, Norway and Finland.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)

The researchers were from the U.S. and from Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden.

(New Genetic Discovery May Eventually End Premature Birth, VOA)

Denotes the inhabitants of Finland, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Finnish, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries of Eastern Europe such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Former Soviet Union, or Finland.

(Eastern European, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Finland.

(Estonia, NCI Thesaurus)

An archipelago in the Baltic Sea at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland.

(Aland Islands, NCI Thesaurus)

Eating lots of sugary candy may strain the liver, alter the body's fatty acid metabolism and increase the risk of cardiometabolic diseases already in childhood, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This Braithwaite Lowrey—I knew his father, lost in the Lively off Greenland in '20; or Andrew Woodhouse, drowned in the same seas in 1777; or John Paxton, drowned off Cape Farewell a year later; or old John Rawlings, whose grandfather sailed with me, drowned in the Gulf of Finland in '50.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)