Added 9 October 2026 inuit noun Categories: PeopleRare Words noun ! Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about inuit at Wordnik → Where our words come from → 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'). Related Words: eskimoesquimauinuktitutinnuinukindianmétisnunaviknunavutiqaluitinupiaqaboriginal Back to today's word