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ESQUIMAU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Esquimau mean? 

ESQUIMAU (noun)
  The noun ESQUIMAU has 2 senses:

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')play

2. the language spoken by the Eskimoplay

  Familiarity information: ESQUIMAU used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ESQUIMAU (noun)


Sense 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')

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Eskimo; Esquimau; Inuit

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

Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The language spoken by the Eskimo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Eskimo; Esquimau

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

Eskimo-Aleut; Eskimo-Aleut language (the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut)


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