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

2 senses of esquimau

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)

Sense 2
Eskimo, Esquimau -- (the language spoken by the Eskimo)
       => Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language -- (the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut)