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Suomi

/ˈswɔːmɪ/US/ˈswɔmi/

Suomi proper noun: finland (a country in Northern Europe).

Proper noun

Suomi

  1. Finland (a country in Northern Europe).
  2. The Finnish language.
    • Suomi occupies the greater part of Finland1877, Abel Hovelacque, The Science of Language, page 90
    • 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
  3. 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

Noun (1)

Suomi pl (plural only)

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

Noun (2)

Suomi (uncountable)

  1. A freeform variation of psytrance music said to originate in Finland, where it is called suomisaundi.

Examples of Suomi in a sentence

  • "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
  • the mythology of the Finnic peoples (the Suomi and Karelians)1987, Gabriel Weisberg & Laurinda Dixon, The Documented Image, page 191

Origin of Suomi

Borrowed from Finnish Suomi.

Words formed from Suomi

Questions about Suomi

What does Suomi mean?
Suomi means finland (a country in Northern Europe).
How do you use Suomi in a sentence?
"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."
What part of speech is Suomi?
Suomi can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Suomi?
Suomi is pronounced /ˈswɔːmɪ/ (UK).

Words near Suomi in the dictionary

  1. suo motu
  2. suoid
  3. suoids
  4. suolunite
  5. Suomala
  6. Suomi
  7. Suomic
  8. Suomussalmi
  9. Suon
  10. suona
  11. suonas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Suomi (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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