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Tahiti

Tahiti

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An island in the South Pacific with clear blue water and sandy beaches
  • proper noun
  • /təˈhiːti/
: Tahití
  • Pre-1915 Polynesians, voyaging northward from Tahiti, established a society in the Hawaiian Islands about 1,000 years ago.
  • island of Tahiti
  • Tahiti and Moorea
  • call at Tahiti

Oh, it's scented with Nas signature French Polynesian Monoir de Tahiti oils, Manoy de Tahiti.

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Examples

  • Joseph Joubert, a philosopher friend of Diderot, rhapsodized: "O Tahiti, how beautiful are your women and how gentle your men!"

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Two factors mitigate this remote island's isolation from Tahiti, the core of modern life in French Polynesia.

    Academic text (1994)

  • I want to go to Tahiti with her.

    Maybe I Do (2023)

  • I was gonna fly 'em to Tahiti tomorrow.

    Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

  • I'll be lying on a beach in Tahiti.

    Goodbye Lover (1999)

  • And you came from Tahiti in that canoe?

    The Hurricane (1937)

  • Penny, he said, let's go to Tahiti and call it quits until winter again.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • It was the lovely island of Tahiti that Strickland came at last.

    The Moon and Sixpence (1942)

  • Achatina fulica reached Tahiti in 1967 and soon spread to neighboring islands.

    Academic text (1991)

  • I have always dreamed of visiting Tahiti for its stunning beaches.

Surface Forms

Tahiti main

Etymology

Tahiti comes from the island's own Tahitian language and is simply the local name for the place. A helpful way to remember it is to think of Tahiti as the native word for a 'remote', tropical island in the South Pacific, which is why the name now makes you think of clear water, beaches and warm weather.