[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') Synonyms:Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit
[noun] the language spoken by the Eskimo people Synonyms:Eskimo, Esquimau
