Greenlander

English

Etymology

From Greenland +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Greenlander (plural Greenlanders)

  1. 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.
    • 2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 16 July 2020:
      In a recent poll conducted by the Universities of Greenland and Copenhagen, more than two-thirds of Greenlanders expressed a desire for their country to become independent, most of them within 20 years.

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