CHUKCHI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chukchi mean? 

• CHUKCHI (noun)
  The noun CHUKCHI has 2 senses:

1. a member of an indigenous people living on the Chukchi Peninsula

2. an indigenous and isolated language of unknown origin spoken by the Chukchi that is pronounced differently by men and women

  Familiarity information: CHUKCHI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHUKCHI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of an indigenous people living on the Chukchi Peninsula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Chukchi" is a kind of...):

Siberian (a native or inhabitant of Siberia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An indigenous and isolated language of unknown origin spoken by the Chukchi that is pronounced differently by men and women

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Chukchi; Chukchi language

Hypernyms ("Chukchi" is a kind of...):

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

 Context examples 

The researchers found that, since the Soviet period, the spring snowpack has thinned from 14 inches to 9 inches (35 centimeters to 22 centimeters) in the western Arctic and from 13 inches to 6 inches (33 centimeters to 14.5 centimeters) in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, north and west of Alaska, despite notable uncertainty in the historical estimates.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)