INUIT as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • 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”)
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) Inuit is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower