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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Archaic form of Eskimo. alt-of, archaic
2. 2
   the language spoken by the Eskimo wordnet
3. 3
   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

Proper Noun

1. 1
   Archaic form of Eskimo. alt-of, archaic

Synonyms

All synonyms

eskimoeskimoeskimo languageesquimau languageinuit

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