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Example sentences from the Web for rangatiraThrough the creaming surges of Table Bay the Rangatira is speeding on her southward course. Renshaw Fanning's Quest|Bertram Mitford This happened many years before I came to the country, and when my rangatira was one of the most famous fighting men in his tribe. Old New Zealand|Earl of Pembroke. He belongs to the caste styled tana, or chieftains, a degree above that of rangatira, or simple gentlemen-warriors. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2)|William Delisle Hay The chief who claimed me was a good specimen of the Maori rangatira. Old New Zealand|Earl of Pembroke.
Their society had definite ranks, from that of the Rangatira, the chief with a long pedigree, to the slave. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2)|Andrew Lang
nounNZ a Māori chief of either sex Word Origin for rangatiraMāori Words nearby rangatiraranee, Ranelagh Gardens, Ranfurly Shield, rang, ranga, rangatira, rangatiratanga, range, ranged, range finder, rangeland Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |