A member of any of several Aboriginal peoples of coastal Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland.
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inuit
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for inuit.
Editorial note
Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsen Anderson showed back around 1930 that it wasn't a special adaptation of the Inuit people.
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Quick take
A member of any of several Aboriginal peoples of coastal Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of inuit gathered in one view.
Synonym of Inuktitut, the Inuit language.
Of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for inuit.
noun
A member of any of several Aboriginal peoples of coastal Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland.
noun
Synonym of Inuktitut, the Inuit language.
adjective
Of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture.
Example sentences
Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsen Anderson showed back around 1930 that it wasn't a special adaptation of the Inuit people.
The modern day Inuit are descendants of conquerors in exactly the same way that descendants of European settlers are.
The 'Ours' (presumably meaning MS/Xbox) makes everything look like Inuit art completely losing any original sense.
Anyway, the Dorset disappearance is usually blamed on the Inuit (whose oral traditions recount driving off the Dorset people), although they seem to have already been in decline when the Inuit arrived.
The Inuit aren't eating oranges and spinach, that stuff doesn't grow in the tundra.
Hell the norse and europeans were in contact with dorset long before the inuit.
Norse objects and technology in Inuit possession in Canada could easily have been obtained first in Greenland, where the Norse settlements were.
It could be that Inuit pathogens may have partly been to blame, though we may never know.
Of course, the Inuit also have oral traditions about the now-extinct Dorset people.
Is there evidence of contact between the Inuit and the Norse there?
Yes, there are native inuit whose diets are nearly 100% meat.
What about native Inuit populations whose diets were nearly 100% meat?
Quote examples
There's a famous quote attributed to the Inuit that Marcel Mauss mentions in The Gift: "Gifts make slaves like whips make dogs." Both halves of that statement are provocative.
Eskimos (or is the politically correct term Inuit or something else now?) lived on blubber, and only started experiencing the whole heart disease/obesity epidemic when switched to a more "conventional" grain-heavy diet.
Proper noun examples
It seems like these Vikings encountered the Dorset, not the Inuit, and the Dorset were later wiped out by the Inuit, so no oral tradition of the Viking contact would have survived.
You can also look north the the Thule (Inuit) and Dorset cultures.
It's apparently clear the Inuit's diet has influence on their cardiac health, but is it really just the omega-3s and not the wider range of benefits from eating fish?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use inuit in a sentence?
Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsen Anderson showed back around 1930 that it wasn't a special adaptation of the Inuit people.
What does inuit mean?
A member of any of several Aboriginal peoples of coastal Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland.
What part of speech is inuit?
inuit is commonly used as noun, adjective.