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Aleutian

American  
[uh-loo-shuhn] / əˈlu ʃən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Aleutian Islands.


noun

  1. Aleut.

  2. Aleutians. Aleutian Islands.

Aleutian British  
/ əˈluːʃən /

adjective

  1. of, denoting, or relating to the Aleutian Islands, the Aleuts, or their language

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. another word for Aleut

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The catch, so to speak, is that the boats must travel much farther north—to fisheries 220 miles above the Aleutian Islands, the crabbers’ old hunting grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Another eye-catching pattern appeared near Unimak Island, the easternmost of the Aleutian Islands.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

Rick Shelford, the captain of the Aleutian Lady, announced in a social media post that Meadows died Feb. 25.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

From there we hopscotched to Chile, up to Mexico City, and then out to Alaska’s remote Aleutian Chain, where a sturdy, generous band of believers make their living off the Bering Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Pacific; breeds from Santa Catalina Island north to Bering Strait, west through Aleutian Islands to Kamchatka and northern Japan; winters in same region.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

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