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Inuit
[ in-oo-it, -yoo- ]
noun
- a member of a group of Indigenous peoples inhabiting northernmost North America from northern Alaska to eastern Canada and Greenland.
- the language of the Inuit, a member of the Eskimo-Aleut family comprising a variety of dialects.
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Origin of Inuit1
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Origin of Inuit1
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Example Sentences
Try explaining what a cucumber tastes like to a 19th century Inuit.
Discovered frozen in ice by two Inuit waterbenders, they begin a journey to help him access his full powers as avatar.
The commenter said Dodson is not a full-blooded member of any tribe and is in fact one-quarter Aleut, not Inuit.
Not that Western civilization has never embraced the mythical Inuit practice of leaving the old out on an ice floe.
Itajung became a highly respected man, for he was by far the best whaler in all the Inuit tribe.
They were much taller than the Inuit and had very long legs and arms, but their eyes were not as good.
They were on good terms with the Inuit and shared the same hunting ground, but lived in separate villages.
In days of old an enormous man lived with other members of the Inuit tribe in a village beside a large inlet.
Their strength was so great that they could hold a harpooned walrus as easily as the Inuit could hold a seal.
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