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RASMUSSEN

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RASMUSSEN (noun)
  The noun RASMUSSEN has 1 sense:

1. Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)play

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


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RASMUSSEN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen; Rasmussen

Instance hypernyms:

ethnologist (an anthropologist who studies ethnology)

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))


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