Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of any of a group of peoples inhabiting the Arctic coastal regions of North America and parts of Greenland and northeast Siberia.
- noun Any of the languages of the Eskimo peoples.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a race inhabiting Greenland and parts of arctic America and Asia (on the Bering sea), on or near the coasts.
- Of or pertaining to the Eskimos.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ethnol.) One of a peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race.
- noun (Zoöl.) one of a breed of large and powerful dogs used by the Eskimos to draw sledges. It closely resembles the gray wolf, with which it is often crossed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A group of
indigenous peoples inhabiting theArctic , fromSiberia , throughAlaska and NorthernCanada , toGreenland , including theInuit andYupik . - proper noun Any of the
languages of the Eskimo. - noun A member of any of the Eskimo peoples.
- adjective Of or relating to the Eskimo peoples.
- adjective In, of, or relating to the Eskimo languages.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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')
- noun the language spoken by the Eskimo
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There are many racial slurs out there but the term Eskimo, used for the people now referred to as Inuit as they in fact most often call themselves, is technically not one of them.
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To add to the complication however, not all Eskimo-Aleut speaking peoples find the term Eskimo insulting at all4.
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There are many racial slurs out there but the term Eskimo, used for the people now referred to as Inuit as they in fact most often call themselves, is technically not one of them.
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To add to the complication however, not all Eskimo-Aleut speaking peoples find the term Eskimo insulting at all4.
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The term Eskimo may be held to include all the Innuit population living on the Aleutian islands, the islands of Bering sea, and the shores both of Asia and America north of about latitude 64°.
The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871
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In Alaska the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term or even specifically used for Inupiat (which technically is Inuit).
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In Alaska the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term or even specifically used for Inupiat (which technically is Inuit).
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So that anything the white man can thrust at the Eskimo in the educational process, it seems that the Eskimo is able to take it in his stride.
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In his native surroundings the Eskimo is a happy and contented citizen of the Dominion.
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In Canada and Greenland [3] [4] [5] [6] the term Eskimo is widely held to be pejorative [3] [7] and has fallen out of favor, largely supplanted by the term Inuit.
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