Greenlander
noun
Greenlander is a noun meaning “A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-E-E-N-L-A-N-D-E-R, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Greenlander is Greenlanders.
What does Greenlander mean?
noun
- 1
A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Greenlander?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Greenlander.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Greenlander
- Greenlanders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Greenlander?
Greenlander appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Greenlander in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | Groenlandais, Groenlandaise |
| German | Grönländer, Grönländerin |
| Portuguese | groenlandês, gronelandês |
| Spanish | groenlandés, groenlandesa |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.