Inuit - definition, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈɪnjʊɪt|
Brit.  |ˈɪnjʊɪt|

noun

- 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') (syn: eskimo, esquimau, inuit)

Extra examples

... the Inuit concept of their environment was centred around the dichotomy between land and sea.

Word forms

noun
singular: Inuit
plural: Inuit
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