Suomi

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UK/ˈswɔːmɪ/US/ˈswɔmi/

proper noun

Finland (a country in Northern Europe).

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. The Finnish language.

    Suomi occupies the greater part of Finland

    1877, Abel Hovelacque, The Science of Language, page 90
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    The Finnic languages show that the primitive people were clad only in the skins of animals since the skin or hide of an animal is kut in Wotiak, ked in Mordwin and kete in Suomi.

    1888, Canon Isaac Taylor, "The Origin and Primitive Seat of the Aryans", The journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 17, page 266

    "I THOUGHT HIS SITE WAS ENTIRELY IN SUOMI." "IF THAT MEANS IT'S GOT MORE DOTS OVER THE VOWELS THAN AN EIGHTIES HEAVY METAL ALBUM, I'LL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT."

    2011, John O'Neill and Steve Johansson, "Ladies and the Vamps", Knights of the Dinner Table: The Java Joint, page 32
  2. A surname from Finnish.

    What Suomi has that Harlow did not have is technology.

    2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015
nounSuomi pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyThe Finns.

    1963, Francis Peabody Magoun Jr. (trans.), The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District the original homeland of the Suomi tribe (suomalaiset).

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    Over and above the 1,800,000 odd they number in Finland, the Suomi come in for about 250,000 more in the population of the adjacent Russian governments.

    1893 Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, translation of the third edition by Z.A. Ragozin, page 69

    the mythology of the Finnic peoples (the Suomi and Karelians)

    1987, Gabriel Weisberg & Laurinda Dixon, The Documented Image, page 191

    1997, Eric Christiansen, The Northern Crusades, Nevertheless, a community of Christians had been established among the Suomi (south-west Finns), and in 1215 there was a Finnish convert […] The motives of the Swedes who went into Suomi lands, and of the Suomi who accepted their faith and paid tithe to their bishop, can only be conjectured.

nounSuomi (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentA freeform variation of psytrance music said to originate in Finland, where it is called suomisaundi.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. FinnishSuomi
  2. FinnishSuomi
  3. EnglishSuomi

Borrowed from Finnish Suomi.

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Cite this entry
APA

Suomi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Suomi

MLA

“Suomi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Suomi. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Suomi,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Suomi.

Source: Suomi on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.