Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

greenlandman

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: green-land-man
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A whaling ship, normally operating in the North Atlantic.

noun

A male Greenlander.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"In the year 1779, Ten guineas, being the Premium offered for an account of taking Whales by the Gun Harpoon, was adjudged to Captain Humphrey Foord of the Mancheſter Greenlandman[.]"

Etymology

From Greenland + -man.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Greenland

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

Greenlandmen (plural)

Questions

What does greenlandman mean?: A whaling ship, normally operating in the North Atlantic.
Where does greenlandman come from?: From Greenland + -man.

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