Hawaiian
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2.1
- noun
- /həˈwaɪən/
:
hawaiano
- Seventeen of the 20 participants were Caucasian, two were Latina/Latino, and one was Hawaiian.
- native Hawaiian
- Hawaiians and Samoans
- Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
We just wear white pants, Hawaiians, expensive belts, and that's it.
- We just wear white pants, Hawaiians, expensive belts, and that's it.
- His name was Wes and West was Hawaiian.
- I mean, so I'm not doing like I grew up fishing with with some Hawaiians.
- It's a Polynesian sport developed by the Hawaiians that were some of the greatest navigators in the world.
- And with my wife being Hawaiian, there's a mana that's the spirit in Hawaii.
- Hawaii just just, you're not, you're not Hawaiian, so you could just say it normally.
Examples
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How could a Native Hawaiian young woman "learn to be Hawaiian" in the Northwest?
Fiction book (2002) -
On February 1, British and Hawaiians together watched performances consisting of boxing matches, wrestling, and other amusements.
Academic text (1996) -
And then over here is a second entrance for my Hawaiian friends to come.
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My mother stay half Hawaiian, Filipino.
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But I do respect Hawaiians and their land because obviously I'm not Hawaiian, but I do have friends who are.
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One such group is Native Hawaiians, a group indigenous to the islands of Hawai'i.
Academic text (2008) -
But the bond between Native Hawaiians and the land goes much deeper than revenues.
Academic text (1998) -
Although local residents and native Hawaiians enjoy these distinctive tastes, tourists and foreign markets do not appreciate them.
Academic text (1993) -
The ancient Hawaiians believe that "mana", or heart, was transferred into the surfboard as you shaped it.
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I paddled out and struck up a conversation with a stocky Hawaiian in his early 40s.
Synonyms
5
4.7
A person whose family comes from the first people of the Hawaiian Islands
A person who lives in Hawaii and is not a tourist
Compounds
1
5.8
A guitar with steel strings that you play using a metal bar to make smooth sliding notes
1
2.9
A group of islands in the central Pacific Ocean that form the US state of Hawaii
A dance from Hawaii with slow, graceful hand and hip movements that tell a story
- Specialized
Small to medium birds from the Hawaiian Islands that often have bright colors and special beaks
- Informal
A relaxed way of dealing with time in Hawaii where events often start later than planned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hawaiian comes from the name of the islands, Hawaii, which goes back to an old Polynesian word Hawaiki that means 'homeland'. So a Hawaiian is a person 'from Hawaii' or of Hawaiian ancestry.