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Definition of Aleut

1. Noun. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska.

2. Noun. A community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska. "The Aleut and the Eskimo are related culturally and linguistically"

3. Noun. The language spoken by the Aleut.

Definition of Aleut

1. Adjective. Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language. ¹

2. Noun. A member of the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the United States and of Kamchatka Krai in the Russia. ¹

3. Noun. A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands. ¹

4. Proper noun. The language of the Aleutian Islands, related to Eskimo (Inupiaq and Yupik). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aleut

Alesha Aleshia Alessandria Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi Aletha Aletris Aletris aurea Aletris farinosa Aletta

Aletta Jacobs Aleuria aurantia Aleurites Aleurites fordii Aleurites moluccana Aleut Aleutian Aleutian Islander Aleutian Islands Aleutians

Aleutic Aleuts Aleve Alex Alex Boncayao Brigade Alex Haley Alexa Alexander Alexander's deafness Alexander's disease

Literary usage of Aleut

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Russian Orthodox Church Of Alaska And The Aleutian Islands And Its Relation by Vyacheslav Ivanov (1998)
"To give an example of a modern aleut Christian text, Veniaminov quoted a short piece by an aleut Kurbatov written in 1829 (ibid., pp. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"(Right) Old aleut lady preparing a sea lion stomach for storing salmon. [WS Laughlin, University of Connecticut] dundancy in the gene pool. ..."

3. A Trip to Alaska: A Narrative of what was Seen and Heard During a Summer by George Wardman (1884)
"aleut COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE. N the 30th of July the steamer " St. Paul" sailed out of the fog surrounding the island which bears the same name as herself, ..."

4. Women Workers: Trends and Issues by DIANE Publishing Company (1997)
"Educational Attainment Of the 1 million American Indian, Eskimo, and aleut persons age 25 and over in the United States in 1990, 66 percent had a high ..."

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