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Eskimo Common

Eskimo has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

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Noun
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

3

A member of any of the Eskimo peoples.

Adjective
1

Of or relating to the Eskimo peoples.

Proper Noun
1

A group of indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic, from Siberia, through Alaska and Northern Canada, to Greenland, including the Inuit and Yupik.

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