inuit

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture.

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')

Similar word(s): eskimo, esquimau

Definition categories: person, amerindian