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inuit
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun inuit has 1 sense
- inuit(n = noun.person) eskimo, esquimau - 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'); Array is a kind of american indian, indian, red indian
OXFORD DICTIONARY
inuit, n. (also Innuit) (pl. same or Inuits) a N. American Eskimo.
Etymology
Eskimo inuit people
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