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HAWAIIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Hawaiian" is a kind of...):
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian; Oceanic (an eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages)
Domain region:
Aloha State; Haw.; Hawai'i; Hawaii; HI (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)
Derivation:
Hawaiian (of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A native or resident of Hawaii
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Hawaiian" is a kind of...):
American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Hawaiian"):
Native Hawaiian (a member or descendant of the indigenous Polynesian people who lived in the Hawaiian Islands)
Derivation:
Hawaiian (of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Hawaii (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)
Hawaii (the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks)
Derivation:
Hawaii (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)
Hawaii (the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks)
Hawaiian (the Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii)
Hawaiian (a native or resident of Hawaii)
Context examples:
It plays a significant role in Native Hawaiian creation and settlement stories, and is used to practice important activities like traditional long-distance voyaging and wayfinding.
(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)
The team collected data from 49,839 African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian, Native American and people who identified as others and were not defined by those ethnic groups.
(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)
He had had the fever in a secret colony of thirty lepers on one of the Hawaiian Islands.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Noncommercial fishing, such as recreational fishing and the removal of fish and other resources for Native Hawaiian cultural practices, is allowed in the expansion area by permit, as is scientific research.
(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)
Apart from finding new genomic variants, the study assessed whether known disease associations with 8,979 established genomic variants and specific diseases in European ancestry populations could be detected in African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Native American populations.
(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)
I'd have been there yet, if it hadn't been for a girl there, a half-Chinese, quarter-white, and quarter-Hawaiian.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The expanded area, including the archipelago and its adjacent waters, is considered a sacred place for the Native Hawaiian community.
(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)
She was doubly amazed that he had been in the Hawaiian Islands, whither she had migrated from the Azores with her people.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It's an Hawaiian story.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
