Word.ws English Dictionary

Kalevala

/ˈkɑleɪˌvɑlə/

Kalevala proper noun: the Finnish national epic.

kalevala: the Finnish national epic
Image: Elias Lönnrot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun

Kalevala

  1. The Finnish national epic.
  2. The mythical location where the heroes of Kalevala live.
  3. An urban-type settlement, the administrative capital of the Kalevalsky District, Republic of Karelia, in northwestern Russia; also historically known as Uhtua.

Forms of Kalevala

alternative formKalewala

Origin of Kalevala

Borrowed from Finnish Kalevala.

Questions about Kalevala

What does Kalevala mean?
Kalevala means the Finnish national epic.
What part of speech is Kalevala?
Kalevala is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Kalevala?
Kalevala is pronounced /ˈkɑleɪˌvɑlə/.

Words near Kalevala in the dictionary

  1. Kaleta
  2. Kaletas
  3. kaletez
  4. kalette
  5. kalettes
  6. Kalevala
  7. Kalevalan
  8. Kalevalsky District
  9. Kalewala
  10. kaleworm
  11. kaleworms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kalevala (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Kalevala.wav.

Cite this entry: “Kalevala.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kalevala. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.