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RASMUSSEN
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• RASMUSSEN (noun)
The noun RASMUSSEN has 1 sense:
1. Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)
Familiarity information: RASMUSSEN used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen; Rasmussen
Instance hypernyms:
ethnologist (an anthropologist who studies ethnology)
adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))
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