Aleut

[ uh-loot, al-ee-oot ]

noun,plural Al·euts, (especially collectively) Al·eut for 1.
  1. Also Aleutian . a member of a people native to the Aleutian Islands and the western Alaska Peninsula who are related to the Inuit and Yupik.

  2. the language of the Aleut, distantly related to Eskimo: a member of the Eskimo-Aleut family.

Words Nearby Aleut

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How to use Aleut in a sentence

  • The commenter said Dodson is not a full-blooded member of any tribe and is in fact one-quarter Aleut, not Inuit.

  • If it is warm weather, the Aleut will turn his skin skiff upside down, crawl into the hole head first and sleep there.

    Vikings of the Pacific | Agnes C. Laut
  • Gaff or paddle in hand, the Aleut leaps from rock to rock, or dashes among the tumbling beds of tossed kelp.

    Vikings of the Pacific | Agnes C. Laut
  • Let the wind roar above and the ice bang the shore rocks, the Aleut swathed in furs sleeps sound close to earth.

    Vikings of the Pacific | Agnes C. Laut
  • Savages warned him from the island, threatening death to the Aleut Indian hunters he had brought.

    Vikings of the Pacific | Agnes C. Laut
  • Possibly the Aleut understood some of this, for all at once he made a sudden spring and caught at his gun.

    The Young Alaskans | Emerson Hough

British Dictionary definitions for Aleut

Aleut

/ (æˈluːt, ˈæliːˌʊt) /


noun
  1. a member of a people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and SW Alaska, related to the Inuit

  2. the language of this people, related to Inuktitut

Origin of Aleut

1
from Russian aleút, probably of Chukchi origin

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