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Alaskan

Alaskan

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Relating to Alaska or its people
  • adjective
  • /əˈlæskən/
translation icon : alaskense
  • The Alaskan landscape is known for its stunning natural beauty and unique wildlife.
  • an Alaskan native
  • Alaskan natives
  • Alaskan pipeline

Kara is the president and CEO of the Alaskan Oil and Gas Association.

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Examples

  • Kara is the president and CEO of the Alaskan Oil and Gas Association.

  • For example, some native Alaskan students will not say "yes," but will instead simply raise their eyebrows.

    Academic text (1993)
  • You know, just being that Alaskan mountain man we know and love.

  • On your great Alaskan adventure.

  • Altogether, the Alaskan Arctic coast appears to hold at least 27 billion barrels of oil.

    Academic text (2008)
  • But when you've been around for a few interior Alaskan winters, you know that fifty below is something different.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • You've never had a Christmas till you've had an Alaskan Christmas.

  • The dust was transported to the Alaskan Arctic by an unusual configuration of air currents.

    Academic text (1992)
  • I got a cousin who hauls traps on one of those Alaskan crab boats.

  • My dog is purebred Alaskan Klee Kai.

Compounds

A person whose family lived in Alaska before other people arrived

A very large crab that lives in cold northern seas near Alaska with a spiny shell and sweet meat

An oil pipe in Alaska that runs about 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez

A very large brown bear that lives on the coasts of Alaska and British Columbia

The sweet meat from the legs of a very large crab that lives in cold northern seas near Alaska

A person from the original communities who lived in Alaska or whose family comes from them

A large strong dog with thick fur used to pull sleds

Surface Forms

Alaskan positive

Morphology

Alaskan = Alaska (transparent) = Alaska + an

Formed from the place name 'Alaska' plus the productive demonym/adjectival suffix '-an', so the meaning 'relating to Alaska' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Alaskan comes from Alaska, and that name comes from an Aleut word alaxsxaq meaning 'the mainland' or 'great land'. So, an Alaskan thing is something from that land.