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Finnair

/fɪ.nɛə(ɹ)/

Finnair proper noun: a Finnish airline.

Proper noun

Finnair

  1. A Finnish airline.
    • But all the same, pay attention to one thing which is a part of human existence: on a trip by Finnair from Helsinki to New York you can listen to all kinds of music.1983, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, translated by Beverley Wahl, Greetings from Lapland: The Sami, Europe's forgotten people, Zed Press
    • “Yes,” Bond confirmed, “here in Helsinki. Unless Finnair got it wrong.”1984, John E. Gardner, Icebreaker, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 10

Origin of Finnair

From Finn + air, introduced as a brand name of the airline Aero Oy in 1953. In 1968 the name Aero was changed to Finnair.

Questions about Finnair

What does Finnair mean?
Finnair means a Finnish airline.
What part of speech is Finnair?
Finnair is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Finnair?
Finnair is pronounced /fɪ.nɛə(ɹ)/.

Words near Finnair in the dictionary

  1. finnack
  2. finnacks
  3. finnacs
  4. finnage
  5. finnages
  6. Finnair
  7. finnally
  8. finnan
  9. finnan haddie
  10. finnan haddies
  11. finnan haddock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Finnair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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