inuit

Definition of Inuit in English :

Noun

a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (the people')

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Inuit

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noun plural -it or -its

1.

any of several Native peoples of N America or Greenland, as distinguished from those from Asia or the Aleutian Islands (who are still generally referred to as Eskimos); the preferred term for Eskimo in N America

Compare Yupik

2.

the language of these peoples; Inuktitut

Inuit

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nounWord forms: plural ˈInuit or ˈInuits

1.

a member of a group of indigenous people of N North America, inhabiting areas from Greenland and E Canada to Alaska

2.

the language of this people, belonging to the Eskimo-Aleut language family

3.

Eskimo (sense 1)

in this sense, Inuit is now the preferred term in Canada

Inuit

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n.

1. (used with a pl. verb) The members of various Eskimoan peoples inhabiting the Arctic from northwest Alaska eastward to eastern Greenland, particularly those inhabiting Canada.

2.

a. The family of languages spoken by the Inuit.

b. Any of the languages spoken by the Inuit.

adj.

Of or relating to the Inuit or the languages spoken by the Inuit.

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