Unalaskan
adj, name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A native of Unalaska.
"Virtually all of the resources that Unalaskans desire can be found within the Unalaska Bay area, and travel outside the Bay is much more difficult and dangerous than travel within it."
- 1 Pertaining to or typical of Unalaska
"The weary sojourner sustains life mostly on "canned goods," and a combination of Unalaskan winter with this variety of nutriment is sufficient to make a man impatient with liquor, or employ one of the other means by which consciousness of misfortune is blunted."
- 2 Not characteristic of or appropriate to Alaska.
"Who was talking?. From where did that un-Alaskan sound proceed?"
- 1 The eastern dialect of Inuktitut.
"There are three Aleut languages which, from west to east, are: Attuan, Atkan and Unalaskan. On the whole, the Atkan leans on the Unalaskan and goes with it. Unalaskan with comparatively little variation includes the Aleut subdialects of the Alaska Peninsula of the mainland."
Example
More examples"The weary sojourner sustains life mostly on "canned goods," and a combination of Unalaskan winter with this variety of nutriment is sufficient to make a man impatient with liquor, or employ one of the other means by which consciousness of misfortune is blunted."
Etymology
From Unalaska + -n.
From un- + Alaskan.
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