| NOUN | person | Inuit, Eskimo, Esquimau | a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia) |
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| Sounds | ih'nuwt | |
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| Rhymes | absolute ... uproot: 83 rhymes with uwt... | |
| Meaning | 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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| Synonyms | Eskimo, Esquimau | |
| Broader | Amerindian, Native American | Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived |
| Spanish | esquimal, inuit, Inuit | |
| Catalan | esquimal, inuit, Inuit | |
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