What does finn mean?

Definitions for finn
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Finnnoun

    a native or inhabitant of Finland

Wiktionary

  1. Finnnoun

    A person from Finland.

  2. Finnnoun

    A male given name from Irish.

  3. Finnnoun

    A surname.

  4. Finnnoun

    A river in County Donegal, Ireland, tributary to the Mourne.

ChatGPT

  1. finn

    The name Finn can have several meanings and definitions depending on the context. 1. Personal Name: Finn is a common name in several countries. It is of Irish origin and means "fair" or "white". It is also associated with a famous hero in Irish mythology, Finn MacCool. 2. Nationality: "Finn" can also refer to a person from Finland, a country in Northern Europe. 3. Literature: Finn is a character in Mark Twain's classic novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." It is also the name of a character in the Star Wars franchise. 4. Finnish Spitz: Popularly known as a "Finn", this is a breed of dog originating from Finland. 5. In marine biology, "Finn" may refer to the fins of a fish, misspelled. Remember that the context in which the term is used will largely determine its correct interpretation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Finnadjective

    a native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns

Wikidata

  1. Finn

    The Finn dinghy is the men's single-handed, cat-rigged Olympic class for sailing. It was designed by Swedish canoe designer, Rickard Sarby, in 1949 for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Since the 1952 debut of the boat, the design has been in every summer Olympics, making it one of the most prolific Olympic sailboats.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Finn

    fin, n. a native of Finland in the north-west of Russia.—adjs. Fin′nic, Fin′nish, pertaining to the Finns in the widest sense.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. finn

    [IRC] To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on IRC. The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987. There may be some influence from the ‘Finn’ character in William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Count Zero, who at one point says to another (much younger) character “I have a pair of shoes older than you are, so shut up!”

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  2. FINN

    What does FINN stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the FINN acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FINN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Finn is ranked #1721 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Finn surname appeared 20,852 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 7 would have the surname Finn.

    90.9% or 18,954 total occurrences were White.
    3.8% or 792 total occurrences were Black.
    2.8% or 603 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.3% or 273 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 136 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 92 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of finn in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of finn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of finn in a Sentence

  1. Eric Fehrnstrom:

    Trump has been declared dead so many times that he must feel like Huck Finn at his own funeral, the fact is, he's not going away. He defies the normal political laws of gravity.

  2. Barrett Doyle:

    Pope Francis's removal of (Finn) is a good step but just a beginning.

  3. Cerciello Regas family:

    Finn is trying to stay hopeful but has suffered from severe depression since the incident, while in prison he has seen the way the media has portrayed him and the circumstances of the case and it has been difficult to hear the facts unfairly misrepresented.

  4. Lea Michele:

    I feel like, for me personally, I've lost two people : Cory Monteith and Finn, everyone is asking,' Is it hard to do this ? Is it hard to be back at work ?' But the truth is, it's no harder at work than it is in life -- so we might as well all be together as a family supporting each other to get through this together.

  5. Reid Thompson:

    I was informed that Finn had been causing some chaos as he chased a deer along the road, through the hospital grounds and back onto the road. They tangled for a bit, up and over a guard rail and down onto the ice … eventually the deer got away and Finn gave up the chase.

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