Inuit (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural In·u·its, (especially collectively) In·u·it for 1.
  1. a member of a group of Indigenous peoples inhabiting northernmost North America from northern Alaska to eastern Canada and Greenland.
  2. the language of the Inuit, a member of the Eskimo-Aleut family comprising a variety of dialects.
noun plural -it or -its
  1. any of several Native peoples of N America or Greenland, as distinguished from those from Asia or the Aleutian Islands (who are still generally referred to as Eskimos); the preferred term for Eskimo in N America
  2. the language of these peoples; Inuktitut
Inuit (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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