unalaskan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to or typical of Unalaska
adj
Not characteristic of or appropriate to Alaska.
Example Sentences
- "The weary sojourner sustains life mostly on "canned goods," and a combination of Unalaskan winter with this variety of nutriment is sufficient to make a man impatient with liquor, or employ one of the other means by which consciousness of misfortune is blunted."
- "Like the processing industry, the Unalaskan fishing fleet is dominated by outsiders."
- "From the sea path we ran down into the little dell where Whitney Pond or Botanist Pool lay serenely, nurturing the delicate yellow anemone, two species of Arenaria, the mountain goldthread, and the Unalaskan Arnica, flowers found nowhere else on the island."
- "Virtually all of the resources that Unalaskans desire can be found within the Unalaska Bay area, and travel outside the Bay is much more difficult and dangerous than travel within it."
- "The problem surfaced in 1988 when Unalaska was left off a federal roll of recognized tribal entities, much to the surprise of Unalaskans."
- "When an Unalaskan came on board the Spanish vessel, he 'made the sign of the cross and said he was a Christian'."
Etymology
From Unalaska + -n.