What is the meaning of Eskimo?

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'))
  • The language spoken by the Eskimo.
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