Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun inuit

1 sense of inuit

Sense 1
Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit -- (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'))
       => Indian, American Indian, Red Indian -- (a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived)