SUOMI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Suomi mean? 

• SUOMI (noun)
  The noun SUOMI has 2 senses:

1. republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917

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

  Familiarity information: SUOMI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUOMI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Finland; Republic of Finland; Suomi

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Suomi"):

Karelia (a region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea)

capital of Finland; Finnish capital; Helsingfors; Helsinki (the capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center)

Espoo (a city in southern Finland)

Tammerfors; Tampere (an industrial city in south central Finland)

Aaland islands; Ahvenanmaa; Aland islands (an archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control)

Maarianhamina; Mariehamn (a town that is the chief port of the Aland islands)

Meronyms (members of "Suomi"):

Finn (a native or inhabitant of Finland)

Holonyms ("Suomi" is a part of...):

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Holonyms ("Suomi" is a member of...):

Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Finnish; Suomi

Hypernyms ("Suomi" is a kind of...):

Baltic-Finnic (a group of Finnic languages including Finnish and Estonian)

 Context examples 

The atlas takes advantage of low-light imaging now available from the NOAA/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, calibrated by thousands of ground observations.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)