Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Estonia or its people, language, or culture.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Estonia.
- noun A person of Estonian ancestry.
- noun The Finno-Ugric language of Estonia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to Estonia.
- noun a native or inhabitant of Estonia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, from, or pertaining to the country of
Estonia , its people or their language. - noun A person from
Estonia or someone descended from such people. - proper noun The
Uralic language that is the officiallanguage of Estonia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or pertaining to Estonia or the people or culture of Estonia
- noun the official language of Estonia; belongs to the Baltic-Finnic family of languages
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Examples
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I prefer calling them butter beans, as 'lima' in Estonian means 'slime' and 'slime beans' don't sound too good.
Uncle Albert, Juneteenth and lima beans | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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I think Pille nailed it when she said lima means slime in Estonian.
Uncle Albert, Juneteenth and lima beans | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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The name of the festival recalls the Estonian folk party 'jaskar.'
News from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Times. 2009
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The more Estonian Tallinn gets (55 percent of Tallinn residents identify as Estonian today), the less the city's residents wanted to deal with a May
Itching for Eestimaa 2009
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It is the idea of Estonian company Online Expo, run by young entrepreneurs Anna Lepp and Sergei Semjonov.
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It is the idea of Estonian company Online Expo, run by young entrepreneurs Anna Lepp and Sergei Semjonov.
Taipei Times 2008
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It is the idea of Estonian company Online Expo, run by young entrepreneurs Anna Lepp and Sergei Semjonov.
Taipei Times 2008
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In a lot of other languages, such as Estonian, Russian, and German, just to focus on Central and Eastern Europe, noun phrases are written differently depending on what role they perform in the sentence:
Preposterous Apostrophes VI: A Wrinkle « Motivated Grammar 2007
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In a lot of other languages, such as Estonian, Russian, and German, just to focus on Central and Eastern Europe, noun phrases are written differently depending on what role they perform in the sentence:
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The 'Estonian' nationalists could be Communist, capitalists, ecologists or what ever but they frame their political viewpoint within that of the Estonian imagined community which is now a state.
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