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# alaskan

«alaskan» in Mova's school dictionary: **adjective: From or about Alaska, the largest state of the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (Alaskan); noun (an Alaskan, Alaskans)

### meaning for a pupil

1) adjective: From or about Alaska, the largest state of the USA, in the far north-west of North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alaskan/#m1)

2) noun: A person who lives in or comes from Alaska. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alaskan/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in geography lessons and nature stories: Alaskan bears, salmon, glaciers, the Alaskan Malamute dog. Phrases: «Alaskan wilderness», «Alaskan Malamute».

### examples

- Alaskan winters are long and dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alaskan/#x1)
- The Alaskan brown bear catches salmon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alaskan/#x2)
- An Alaskan Malamute pulled the sled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alaskan/#x3)
- My pen pal is an Alaskan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alaskan/#x4)
- Alaskan glaciers are melting faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alaskan/#x5)
- Many Alaskan towns can only be reached by plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alaskan/#x6)

### note

Always a capital A: Alaskan. Alaska became a US state in 1959; the USA bought it from Russia in 1867.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «alaskan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alaskan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.