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Finlander Now rare.|ˈfɪnlændə(r)|
[f. Finland, name of a country in N.E. Europe + -er1.]
A native or inhabitant of Finland.
The usual form now is Finn.
1727P. Kinck in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. XXXV. 357 A Letter to James Theobald, Esq., giving an Account of the Norwegian Finns, or Finlanders. 1808in W. Monteith Narr. Conq. Finland (1854) 53 The Finlander regiments entering the service of His Imperial Majesty shall not be employed against Sweden..during the present war. 1838Penny Cycl. X. 274/1 The Laplander is of the same extraction as the Finlander, and calls himself a ‘Samelada or Same’. 1854[see Finn]. 1920Contemp. Rev. Dec. 792 Finnish-speaking Finlanders. |