ESKIMO
Dictionary entry overview: What does Eskimo mean? • ESKIMO (noun)
The noun ESKIMO has 2 senses:
1. 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')
2. the language spoken by the Eskimo
Familiarity information: ESKIMO used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ESKIMO (noun)
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')
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Eskimo; Esquimau; Inuit
Hypernyms ("Eskimo" is a kind of...):
American Indian; Indian; Red Indian (a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived)
Meaning:
The language spoken by the Eskimo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Eskimo; Esquimau
Hypernyms ("Eskimo" is a kind of...):
Eskimo-Aleut; Eskimo-Aleut language (the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut)
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