eskimo

Definition of Eskimo 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')

2. eskimo, esquimau

the language spoken by the Eskimo

esquimau

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Eskimo

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noun

1. plural -mos or -mo

a member of a group of peoples inhabiting N Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and E Siberia, having a material culture adapted to an extremely cold climate

2.

the language of these peoples

3.

a family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut

adjective

4.

relating to, denoting, or characteristic of the Eskimos

Eskimo

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noun

1. Word forms: plural ˈEskiˌmos or ˈEskiˌmo

a member of a group of indigenous North American peoples thinly scattered in areas extending from Greenland across N Canada and Alaska through the NE tip of Asia

see also Inuit (sense 1) Inuit (sense 3)

2.

any of the languages of the Eskimos, belonging to the Eskimo-Aleut language family and including a continuum of dialects called Inupiaq in Alaska, Inuktitut in Canada, and Kalaallisut in Greenland, as well as the Yupik languages

adjective

3.

of the Eskimos or their languages or cultures

Eskimo

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n. pl. Eskimo or Es·ki·mos

1. A member of any of a group of peoples inhabiting the Arctic coastal regions of North America and parts of Greenland and northeast Siberia. See Usage Note at Native American.

2. Any of the languages of the Eskimo peoples.

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