Greenlander
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English
Etymology
Noun
Greenlander (plural Greenlanders)
- A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54.
- Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54.
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Translations
a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent