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Finn

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Finn  (fn)
n.
A native or inhabitant of Finland.

[From Swedish Finne.]

Finn1
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) a native, inhabitant, or citizen of Finland
2. (Linguistics / Languages) a speaker of a Finnic language, esp one of the original inhabitants of Russia, who were pushed northwards during the Slav migrations
[Old English Finnas (plural); related to Old Norse Finnr Finn, Latin Fennī the Finns, Greek Phinnoi]

Finn2
n
(Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) known as Finn MacCool. (in Irish legend) chief of the Fianna, father of the heroic poet Ossian
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Finn - a native or inhabitant of Finland
Finland, Republic of Finland, Suomi - republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917
European - a native or inhabitant of Europe
Translations
Finn [fɪn] Nfinlandés/esa m/f

Finn [ˈfɪn] nFinlandais(e) m/f

Finn
nFinne m, → Finnin f

Finn [fɪn] nfinlandese m/f

Finn مواطن فنلندي Fin finne Finne Φινλανδός finés suomalainen Finlandais Finac finlandese フィンランド人 핀란드 사람 Fin finne Fin finlandês финляндец finne ชาวฟินแลนด์ Fin người Phần Lan 芬兰人


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Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual -- he is a combina- tion of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of archi- tecture.
He had a noble new skeleton--the skeleton of the late and only local celebrity, Jimmy Finn, the village drunkard--a grisly piece of property which he had bought of Jimmy Finn himself, at auction, for fifty dollars, under great competition, when Jimmy lay very sick in the tan-yard a fortnight before his death.
At one in the morning he saw Elijah Davis herding Henry Finn and Joe Hines, the lumber-jack, toward the door.
 
 
 
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