Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Aleut, their language, or their culture.
- noun A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands, especially an Aleut.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Appellative of or pertaining to a group of islands (the Aleutian islands) separating Bering sea from the northern Pacific, nearly or quite coextensive with the Catherine archipelago, extending from near the southern point of Kamtchatka to the peninsula of Alaska.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.
- noun a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, from, or pertaining to the Aleutian Islands (a group of islands in the northern
Pacific Ocean , west ofAlaska ), or to its inhabitants, their culture, or their language. - noun A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska
- adjective of or relating to the Aleut or their language or culture
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Examples
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Since we switched to catch shares, one commercial crabber has died in the fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.
Making 'The Deadliest Catch' Less Deadly Scott Campbell Jr. 2011
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Radiation from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan could reach the Aleutian Islands later today and California tomorrow, according to a simulated model from the United Nations reported on by the New York Times.
Radiation may reach U.S. tomorrow, but no need for potassium iodide 2011
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"Planes could fly south of the Aleutian Islands and be perfectly safe."
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Scientists have debated the issue going back at least to 1906, when an 8.0-magnitude temblor hit the Aleutian Islands in the northern Pacific, and just 30 minutes later, a 8.0-magnitude quake struck Chile.
Quakes Echo World-Wide Gautam Naik 2011
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They had spent a winter of solitude and starvation on a lonely Aleutian isle, and their rescue in the spring by another fur-ship had been one chance in a thousand.
Lost Face 2010
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"Right now it's not a difficult area to avoid because it's north of the Aleutian Islands," Burke said.
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A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.
Radiation Plume Could Reach Southern California By Friday The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Rocks in the sky made a crescent like the Aleutian islands viewed from high altitude.
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A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.
Radiation Plume Could Reach Southern California By Friday The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Overfishing led to declines of sea lions, the preferred food of killer whales, and they began eating sea otters, whose populations in Alaska's Aleutian Islands declined 90% from the late 1980s to 2005, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Loss of predators in the food chain can alter the ecosystem 2011
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