säätyläinen - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
sääty (“position, class, rank, estate”) + -läinen
säätyläinen
- (historical) person of rank (member of the upper class or high society)
- (in the plural, historical) the gentry (the members of the upper classes collectively)
- In Finland, the gentry was regarded as consisting of the nobility, the clergy, and the bourgeoisie.
- “säätyläinen”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03