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NUNAVUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nunavut mean? 

NUNAVUT (noun)
  The noun NUNAVUT has 1 sense:

1. an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelagoplay

  Familiarity information: NUNAVUT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NUNAVUT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

Nunavut is the homeland of the Inuit people

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Holonyms ("Nunavut" is a part of...):

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)


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