greenlanderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Greenland +‎ -er.

名詞

Greenlander (plural Greenlanders)

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

   • 2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 16 July 2020:

     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.

関連する語

• Greenland
• Greenlandic