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Vinony

Helsinki

proper noun

  1. capital of Finland
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/

name

Etymology: Etymology tree Finnish Helsinkibor. English Helsinki Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

  1. The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.

    “My doctors didn't want me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have an agreement on how to proceed.”

    “There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August.”

  2. The Finnish government.

    “The aim of the bill is to introduce temporary measures which curb migrants from entering the Nordic nation, in response to what Helsinki sees as “hybrid warfare” from Russia.”