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Unalaska

Unalaska proper noun: a volcanic island in the Aleutian Islands, an archipelago owned by the US state of Alaska.

Proper noun

Unalaska

  1. A volcanic island in the Aleutian Islands, an archipelago owned by the US state of Alaska.
  2. A city and largest settlement on this island.

Origin of Unalaska

Uncertain. Possibly from Russian Унала́шка (Unaláška), an adapted borrowing of Aleut Nawan-Alaxsxa, the native name for the island.

Words formed from Unalaska

Questions about Unalaska

What does Unalaska mean?
Unalaska means a volcanic island in the Aleutian Islands, an archipelago owned by the US state of Alaska.
What part of speech is Unalaska?
Unalaska is a proper noun.

Words near Unalaska in the dictionary

  1. unalamation
  2. unalarmed
  3. unalarming
  4. unalarmingly
  5. unalarmist
  6. Unalaska
  7. Unalaskan
  8. Unalaskans
  9. unalchemical
  10. unalcoholic
  11. unalcoholized

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