Esquimau

Other forms: Esquimaus

Definitions of Esquimau
  1. 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')
  2. noun
    the language spoken by the Eskimo
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    type of:
    Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language
    the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut
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