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Samoan

Samoan

5 4.1
Related to Samoa, its people, or its culture
  • adjective
  • /səˈmoʊən/
translation icon : samoano
  • In Samoan culture, to live in shame is a fate worse than death.
  • Samoan customs
  • Samoan woman
  • Samoan exchange

Examples

  • "R!" Diaz's long hair, a tribute to his Samoan heritage, bobs up and down with him.

    Blog text (24)
  • Hearing the shouts, the huge Samoan gardener hurried toward the office from the outside.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • One of those huge Samoan kids, right?

  • This here is my Samoan friend.

  • So, let's give him a warm American Samoan welcome!

  • The Samoan people believe tattooing is a gift from the Gods.

  • A majority of older and younger respondents alike responded that Samoan customs are a good thing.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Unlike Marcus, Nardi enters the contest over Samoan adolescence and Samoan culture.

    Academic text (1993)
  • As O'Meara (1990) documents, a similar pattern characterizes exchanges between rural Samoan planters and wage-earning urbanites.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The Samoan culture is rich in traditions and values that emphasize community and family.

Synonyms

Austronesian
vsSamoan
1 9.5

Relating to the people, cultures, or languages of islands from Madagascar to Easter Island

is limited to one island nation's people, language, and culture
Oceanian
vsSamoan
6.0

About the people, cultures, or languages of Oceania

is specific to one island nation, its people, language, and culture

Compounds

9.9

A joking way to say people often arrive later than planned in Samoa

A group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific with warm tropical climate and Polynesian culture

Samoan time
  • Australian
9.7

A relaxed way of keeping time when people often arrive late

Surface Forms

Samoan positive

Morphology

Samoan = Samoa (transparent) = Samoa + an

Standard adjectival formation from the place name with the productive suffix '-an', so the relation to Samoa is direct.

Etymology

Samoan comes from Samoa and means 'from Samoa', so it describes things that belong to Samoa, like the language, food, or dance.