Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🗻 From Alaska 🧑‍🦰 A person from Alaska
Alaskan

Alaskan

9 2.5
A person who lives in or comes from Alaska
  • noun
  • /əˈlæskən/
translation icon : alaskense
  • However, when the price of their commercial salmon catch plummeted in the mid-1990s, Alaskans became worried.
  • Native Alaskans

What's radical about that is it's money that Alaskans didn't work for and they believe that they deserve.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • A couple of native Alaskans walking into a hardware store.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Even back then, Alaskans knew how important vaccines were in saving lives.

    Blog text (5)

  • Look, the Alaskans have never taken on a team of this size and skill before, okay?

    Mystery, Alaska (1999)

  • When you net federal and state income taxes, Alaskans are at the bottom of the list.

    Blog text (16)

  • A majority of Alaskans voted to give away our wealth to Big Oil as quickly as possible.

    Blog text (17)

  • Archaeology showed that the Alaskans were probably the first to build permanent homes on the location.

    Academic text (2006)

  • But the Alaskans were used to a windy environment, and it felt just like home.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Her election was a fluke, and Alaskans are embarrassed by her to this day.

    Blog text (25)

  • Thousands of Alaskans depend on the fishery, and their livelihoods were directly endangered by the Exxon Valdez spill.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Many visitors are surprised by how friendly the Alaskans are when they first arrive in the state.

Compounds

Native Alaskan
1 4.8

A person whose family lived in Alaska before other people arrived

Alaskan king crab
  • US
1 3.3

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

Alaskan pipeline
1 3.7

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

Alaskan brown bear
  • US
3.2

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

Alaskan king crab
  • US
4.3

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

Alaskan Native
4.2

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

Alaskan malamute
7.3

A large strong dog with thick fur used to pull sleds

Surface Forms

Alaskan singular
Alaskans plural

Morphology

Alaskan = Alaska (transparent) = Alaska + an

The noun 'Alaskan' denotes a person from Alaska formed by the same productive demonymal suffix '-an' on 'Alaska', so the meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Alaskan comes from Alaska, named from an Aleut word alaxsxaq meaning 'the mainland' or 'great land'. So, an Alaskan is a person who comes from that land.