Greenlander

Definition

A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.

Etymology

From Greenland + -er.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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."