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Meaning of "Vaasa" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VAASA

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PRONUNCIATION OF VAASA

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VAASA

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Vaasa is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VAASA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Vaasa

Vaasa

Vaasa is a city on the west coast of Finland. It received its charter in 1606, during the reign of Charles IX of Sweden and is named after the Royal House of Vasa. Today, Vaasa has a population of 66,405 , and is the regional capital of Ostrobothnia. The city is bilingual with 7,001,698,000,000,000,00069.8% of the population speaking Finnish as their first language and 7,001,248,000,000,000,00024.8% speaking Swedish, but the surrounding municipalities have much higher rates of Swedish-speakers than that. These circumstances make the region as well as the city an important centre for Finland-Swedish culture.

Definition of Vaasa in the English dictionary

The definition of Vaasa in the dictionary is a port in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia: the provisional capital of Finland ; textile industries. Pop: 56 953 Former name: Nikolainkaupunki.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VAASA

V-J Day
v-mail
V-neck
V-necked
V-shaped
V-shaped curve
V-sign
V-type engine
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v. aux.
V. Rev.
v.a.
v.s.
V6
V8
va
va-va-voom
Va.
Vaal

WORDS THAT END LIKE VAASA

abomasa
casa
Congo-Kinshasa
Kalidasa
kielbasa
Kinshasa
Lake Nyasa
Lhasa
madrasa
masa
Mombasa
Nyasa
omasa
rakshasa
tabula rasa
Tarrasa
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Synonyms and antonyms of Vaasa in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Vaasa» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VAASA

Find out the translation of Vaasa to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Vaasa from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Vaasa» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

瓦萨
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Vaasa
570 millions of speakers

English

Vaasa
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वासा
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

فاسا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Вааса
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Vaasa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাসা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Vaasa
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Vaasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vaasa
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

バーサ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Vaasa
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Vaasa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாச
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वासा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Vaasa
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Vaasa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Vaasa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Вааса
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Vaasa
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Βάασα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Vaasa
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Vasa
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Vaasa
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Vaasa

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VAASA»

The term «Vaasa» is quite widely used and occupies the 36.027 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VAASA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Vaasa» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Vaasa» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Vaasa

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VAASA»

Discover the use of Vaasa in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Vaasa and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Socio-economics of recreational fishery : workshop, Hotel ...
Pekka Tuunainen Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute Dear colleagues, I am happy to welcome you all to Vaasa and to our workshop for the next two and a half days. Recreational fishing is one of the most popular hobbies in all the ...
Anna-Liisa Toivonen, 1997
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Finland
Getting There & Away Air Finnair offers daily flights from Vaasa to Helsinki, Kokkola and Stockholm. The airport is situated I2km southeast of the centre; airport buses depart from the city bus station. Bus There are daily bus services from the ...
Paul Harding, 2003
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Nursing Theorists and Their Work
Vårdforskningar 2/1990. Vaasa, Finland: Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, Åbo Akademi. [Pro Caritate. Caritative caring—A positional analysis. Vaasa, Finland: Department of Caring Science, ÅboAkademi.] Eriksson, K. (1991). Att lindra lidande.
Martha Raile Alligood, 2013
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Scandinavian Europe
%06 / pop 57,998 The Gulf of Bothnia gets wasp-waisted around here, and Sweden's a bare 45 nautical miles away, so it's no surprise that a cultural duality exists in Vaasa (Swedish: Vasa). A quarter of the population is Swedish-speaking , ...
‎2009
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Finland
Here are a few basic phrases to help you connect with locals: Yes Ja No Nej Please Snälla/Vänligen Thank you Tack During Finland's civil war, Vaasa briefly served as capital, though the town began with very Swedish origins. During the 14th ...
Andy Symington, George Dunford, 2009
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Immersion Education: International Perspectives
In P. Nelde (Ed.), Language attitudes and language conflict. Plurilingua XI. Bonn: Dummlers Verlag. 195-202. (1990b). Language immersion school of Vaasa/Vasa . VAKKI 14. Vaasa: University of Vaasa. Lauren, C., Lauren, U., & Vesterbacka, ...
Robert Keith Johnson, Merrill Swain, 1997
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English in Europe: The Acquisition of a Third Language
Vaasa: Taydennyskoulutuskeskus, Vaasan yliopisto. Cummins,]. (1981) The role of primary language development in promoting educational success for language minority students. In California State Department of Education (ed.) Schooling ...
Jasone Cenoz, Ulrike Jessner, 2000
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Immersion Education: Practices, Policies, Possibilities
123–134). Vaasa: University of Vaasa. Bergroth, M. (2007) Kielikylpyoppilaiden menestyminen ylioppilaskirjoituksissa [Immersion students' results on the matriculation examination]. In S. Björklund, K. Mård-Miettinen and H. Turpeinen ( eds) ...
Diane J. Tedick, Donna Christian, Tara Williams Fortune, 2011
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Scandinavian Europe
%06 / pop 56,900 Vaasa, a bilingual harbour city and the hub of the 'Swedish coast' (so named because of the high number of Swedish speakers) – bills itself, with some justification, as Finland's sunniest city. A lively, bustling place spread ...
Mark Elliott, 2007
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Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical ...
B.: 1996, Sprakinldming i Svenska has Ekonomstuderande i en Sprakbads- grupp, unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Vaasa. Kantanen, H.: 1995, 'Vaasa immersion association', in M. Buss & Ch. Lauren (eds.), Immersion and Bilingual  ...
Patrick Chedmail, Clément Fortin, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VAASA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Vaasa is used in the context of the following news items.
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Vaasa, Jyväskylä, Lahti – näistä kaupungeista kannattaa nyt etsiä …
Kärkeen sijoittunut Vaasa ei ollut Holapan mukaan paras millään yksittäisellä mittarilla, mutta siellä vuokratuotto ja odotettavissa oleva arvonnousu olivat ... «Helsingin Sanomat, Jul 15»
2
Vaasa on Suomen paras asuntosijoituskaupunki
Vaasa ei ole millään yksittäisellä mittarilla mitattuna paras, mutta bruttovuokratuotto sekä arvonnousu ovat parhaimmistoa ja asuntokuntien määrän ja tulojen ... «Pohjalainen, Jul 15»
3
AIK krossade Vaasa - Bahouis ersättare briljerade
AIK är vidare i Europa League efter 4-0 mot VPS Vaasa. I Nabil Bahouis frånvaro fick talangen Niclas Eliasson chansen från start och briljerade. - Vi har spelare ... «Fotbollskanalen, Jul 15»
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Vaasa ranks number one in competitiveness
The city of Vaasa was named the most competitive in Finland in 2013, according to statistics analysis by Satamittari. The northwestern coastal town beat out ... «YLE News, Jun 15»
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Tutkimus: Vaasa on Suomen kilpailukykyisin seutukunta
Turun yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulun kilpailukykymittaristossa tarkastellaan vuosittain Suomen 70 seutukunnan menestymistä. Tuoreimman julkistuksen ... «Talouselämä, Jun 15»
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Strand: Toivon, että muu Suomi ottaa mallia Vaasan menestyksestä
Vaasa on noussut Suomen kilpailukykyisimmäksi seutukunnaksi, ilmenee Turun yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulun Porin yksikön kehittämän kilpailukykymittariston ... «Pohjalainen, Jun 15»
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Seinäjoki saa koko stadionin, Vaasa tyytyy puolikkaaseen – ja …
Tällaisen stadionin Vaasa olisi voinut saada. Nyt takavasemmalla oleva kannattajien suosima eteläpääty jää rakentamatta. Stadion vuotaa ja laskee tuulen ... «Sanomalehti Ilkka, Jun 15»
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Vaasa maksaa rutkasti toimeentulotukea
Se on yleinen keskuskaupunkien ongelma, sanoo Vaasan perusturvajohtaja Jukka ... Eniten toimeentulotukea maksoi alueen kasvukeskus Vaasa, noin 9,7 ... «Sanomalehti Ilkka, Jun 15»
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Kotimaan uutiset
Peltokorven mukaan Vaasa palkkasi Doctagon-terveyspalveluilta noin 4-5 ... Vaasan kaupunki saavutti vanhuspalveluissaan 10 kuukauden aikana peräti ... «Iltalehti, May 15»
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Vaasa säästi puoli miljoonaa lisäämällä vanhuspalveluita
Vaasa on säästänyt puoli miljoonaa euroa vanhuspalveluista, kun se palkkasi lääkärin ja paransi palveluja. Säästö tuli pääosin siitä, ettei vanhuksia makuutettu ... «YLE, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Vaasa [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/vaasa>. Apr 2024 ».
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