Estonian

[ e-stoh-nee-uhn ]

adjective
  1. of or relating to Estonia or its people.

noun
  1. a member of a Finnish people inhabiting Estonia, Livonia, and other districts of Russia.

  2. the Uralic language of Estonia, very closely related to Finnish.

Origin of Estonian

1
First recorded in 1785–95; Estoni(a) + -an
  • Also Es·tho·ni·an [e-stoh-nee-uhn, es-thoh-] /ɛˈstoʊ ni ən, ɛsˈθoʊ-/ .

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British Dictionary definitions for Estonian

Estonian

Esthonian (ɛˈstəʊnɪən, ɛˈsθəʊ-)

/ (ɛˈstəʊnɪən) /


adjective
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Estonia, its people, or their language

noun
  1. the official language of Estonia: belongs to the Finno-Ugric family

  2. a native or inhabitant of Estonia

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