Greenlander

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.

    "1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54. Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders […] would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows."

Synonyms

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inuit

Example

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"I come from Greenland. I'm a Greenlander, and I speak Greenlandic."

Etymology

From Greenland + -er.

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