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1. (n.) Inuit
a member of any of the Eskimo groups inhabiting an area extending from Greenland to W arctic Canada.
2. Inuit
Also called Inuit-Inupiaq. the speech of all the Eskimo groups from Greenland to NW Alaska.
Etymology: (1755–65; < Inuit: people, pl. of inuk person)
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1. (noun) Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit
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')
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