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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
aleut is a noun meaning "a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska
a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska
“the Aleut and the Eskimo are related culturally and linguistically”
Aleutian Islands
the language spoken by the Aleut
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aleut come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.