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Inuit

DEFINITIONS OF: Inuit

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n 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')

Synonyms:
Eskimo, Esquimau
Type of:
American Indian, Indian, Red Indian
a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived
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