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ALEUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aleut mean? 

ALEUT (noun)
  The noun ALEUT has 3 senses:

1. a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaskaplay

2. a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaskaplay

3. the language spoken by the Aleutplay

  Familiarity information: ALEUT used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALEUT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Aleut; Aleutian

Hypernyms ("Aleut" is a kind of...):

Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the Aleut and the Eskimo are related culturally and linguistically

Hypernyms ("Aleut" is a kind of...):

community (a group of people living in a particular local area)

Domain region:

Aleutian Islands; Aleutians (an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska)


Sense 3

Meaning:

The language spoken by the Aleut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Aleut" is a kind of...):

Eskimo-Aleut; Eskimo-Aleut language (the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut)


 Context examples 


A third group, the Aleut, is related.

(Eskimo, NCI Thesaurus)

Aleutian - a person having origins from the Aleut indigenous group of Alaska and their descendants and who maintains tribal affiliation, or community or cultural attachment.

(Aleutian, NCI Thesaurus)

The concept refers to population subgroups such as Eskimos, Aleuts, Inupiat, Yupik, Alutiiq, Egegik,and Pribilovian, Alaskan Athabascan, Tlingit, and Haida.

(Alaska Native, NCI Thesaurus)



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