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Greenlanders

Greenlanders is the plural of Greenlander.

Meaning of Greenlander

Noun

Greenlander (plural Greenlanders)

  1. A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.
    • 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.

Questions about Greenlanders

What is Greenlanders the plural of?
Greenlanders is the plural of Greenlander.

Words near Greenlanders in the dictionary

  1. Greenland sharks
  2. Greenland spar
  3. Greenland spars
  4. Greenland wolf
  5. Greenlander
  6. Greenlanders
  7. Greenlandian
  8. Greenlandic
  9. Greenlandic Eskimo Pidgin
  10. Greenlandic Norse
  11. Greenlandicness

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