Word.ws English Dictionary

Nunakput

Nunakput proper noun: a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

Proper noun

Nunakput (plural m)

  1. A territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada
    • NWT, Canada 2025. Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
      Lucy Kuptana was elected to the 20th Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in November 2023 to represent the constituency of Nunakput, which includes the communities of Paulatuk, Sachs Harbour, Tuktoyaktuk, and...

Forms of Nunakput

pluralm

Origin of Nunakput

Unadapted borrowing from Inuvialuktun Nunakput, from Inuvialuktun nunakput (“our land”).

Questions about Nunakput

What does Nunakput mean?
Nunakput means a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
What part of speech is Nunakput?
Nunakput is a proper noun.

Words near Nunakput in the dictionary

  1. nun's veilings
  2. nun-coloured
  3. nun-like
  4. Nun.
  5. nuna
  6. Nunakput
  7. Nunamaker
  8. Nunamakers
  9. Nunamara
  10. Nunamiut
  11. Nunamiuts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Nunakput (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Nunakput.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nunakput. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.