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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An Eskimo.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Eskimo.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as Eskimo.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun archaic Eskimo (the language)
  • proper noun archaic Eskimo (the group of people)
  • noun archaic Eskimo (a member of the group)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the language spoken by the Eskimo
  • 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')

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, sing. of Esquimaux, Eskimo; see Eskimo.]

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