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Greenlander

British  
/ ˈɡriːnləndə /

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Greenland

"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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"Greenland belongs to us. It's our country. It doesn't belong to Denmark or the United States. We are a people and we live here," 68-year-old Greenlander Grethe Kramer Berthelsen told AFP.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

"As a Greenlander, I can't help but wonder: what are we worth to these allies? To what lengths are they willing to go to protect us?"

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

Instead, the Vances visited Pituffik Space Base, where American service members work together with Canadian, Danish and Greenlander allies.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

“When the long Darkness spreads itself over the country, many hidden things are revealed, and men’s thoughts travel along devious paths,” a west Greenlander told the explorer Knud Rasmussen sometime around 1904.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

"She's a public lunger or she wouldn't have been singing the Benedicite; and she's a Greenlander or she wouldn't have snow-blinds over her colloids," said George at last.

From Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard

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