FINN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

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

1. a native or inhabitant of Finland

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

• FINN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Finland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

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

Finland; Republic of Finland; Suomi (republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917)

 Context examples 

He and the two mates, are as I learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are Finns and Germans.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were Slavonian hunters, fair-skinned and mighty-muscled; short, squat Finns, with flat noses and round faces; Siberian half-breeds, whose noses were more like eagle-beaks; and lean, slant-eyed men, who bore in their veins the Mongol and Tartar blood as well as the blood of the Slav.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I took him into the pantry where he looked a little reproachfully at the Finn. Together we scrutinized the twelve lemon cakes from the delicatessen shop.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

This reminded me that I had forgotten to tell my Finn to come back so I drove into West Egg Village to search for her among soggy white-washed alleys and to buy some cups and lemons and flowers.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

My Finn informed me that Gatsby had dismissed every servant in his house a week ago and replaced them with half a dozen others, who never went into West Egg Village to be bribed by the tradesmen, but ordered moderate supplies over the telephone.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The automatic quality of Gatsby's answer set us all back at least another minute. I had them both on their feet with the desperate suggestion that they help me make tea in the kitchen when the demoniac Finn brought it in on a tray.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)