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Definition of Hawaiian in English: Hawaiiannoun həˈwʌɪənhəˈwaɪən 1A native or inhabitant of Hawaii. Example sentencesExamples - While we now know that the Hawaiians and Polynesians had large double-hulled boats, for the western world this idea was brand new.
- For Europeans, the possibility of traveling so far was quite radical, much like current views of space travel, and for Hawaiians it was a quantum leap beyond dugout canoes.
- Laupahoehoe Point became a ceremonial centre of great importance to native Hawaiians as well as the only canoe landing place along 50 miles of rugged coast.
- Compared to Hawaiians of European and Asian ancestry, native Hawaiians have continued to bear the brunt of the archipelago's health problems.
- Initially the sugar planters hired native Hawaiians to work as contract laborers on the plantations.
- Annexed by America in 1898 and granted statehood in 1959, Hawaiians have watched for decades as rich outsiders have swooped in and incinerated cultures.
- Cousteau and his crew of 22 are already in the islands, exploring the mid-ocean ecosystem that native Hawaiians view as their ancestral home.
- Passed down through generations, the kumulipo provided early Hawaiians with an explanation, in mythic terms, of the origin, beauty, and bounty of the land.
- Though Hawaiians dragged long, kelp-braided nets across the lagoons and deeper waters of their island homes, all knew better than to keep the jeweled Kole.
- But they were carriers of an ethic that viewed Hawaiians as ignorant children living in a fallen Eden, a view easily reinterpreted as reason for colonialism.
- Along this fertile watershed, now part of Limahuli Garden, early Hawaiians grew crops, such as taro, that they'd brought with them in their canoes from Polynesia.
- We were interested in the ways that Kaiapuni teachers' identities as educators and as Hawaiians were transformed by their participation in the immersion program.
- Arch would not be around today if the native Hawaiians had not kept the mana (spiritual power) energy alive.
- The more traditional forms have resurged since the late 1960s, when native Hawaiians began rediscovering their historical culture.
- Though tourism booms in Hawaii, for example, aboriginal Hawaiians rank among the poorest and sickest inhabitants on the island.
- The painting raises another question: how can native Hawaiians preserve ancient traditions within the calabash of ideas and cultures that is contemporary Hawaii?
- In the 1970s, Hawaiians revived their traditional culture, and the state recognized Hawaiian as an official language.
- The possibility that the Hawaiian Islands become younger to the southeast was suspected by the ancient Hawaiians, long before any scientific studies were done.
- There has been a failure, in older histories, to recognize Hawaiians as active decision-makers in Hawaiian history.
- But living in this beautiful island paradise hasn't sheltered Hawaiians from a serious fight being waged on the mainland - the battle against obesity.
2mass noun The Austronesian language of Hawaii, now spoken by fewer than 2,000 people. Example sentencesExamples - This indigenous language immersion program was established as an attempt to revive Hawaiian after a century-long ban on the language was lifted.
- The newspapers are considered a standard for written Hawaiian which was nearly extinct a few years ago, but has re-emerged as a language of daily use and scholarship.
- Fewer than 2,500 people speak Hawaiian as their mother tongue, most of whom are older people.
- Maori r in many words corresponds to Hawaiian and Samoan l: aroha, Hawaiian aloha love; whare, Samoan fale house.
- Of course, I noticed many mahu, the word for gay men in Tahitian and Hawaiian.
- That's why taboo (tabu, Tongan, closely related to Hawaiian) is kapu in Hawaiian.
- Some lawmakers want to require that Hawaiian be used on government signs and in government documents, although two bills on the matter have stalled.
- Some of them are clearly members of the Austronesian language family, the family that also includes such languages as Malay, Hawaiian, and Maori.
- In the 1970s, Hawaiians revived their traditional culture, and the state recognized Hawaiian as an official language.
- I soon learned, however, that hapa, from hapa haole or half-white in Hawaiian, was my mixed race category between categories of race in America.
adjective həˈwʌɪənhəˈwaɪən 1Relating to Hawaii, its people, or their language. Example sentencesExamples - In fact, the majority of the resorts are located on Waikiki which was made popular in the 1800s by Hawaiian royalty who frequented the area for its beautiful beaches.
- Prohibition of hula dancing provoked a ‘discursive insurrection’ against colonial law in the form of traditional stories of the dance in Hawaiian language newspapers.
- The ukulele, the Hawaiian gift that enlivened vaudeville halls across North America and Europe in the early 20th century, has two exemplars in a glass case, next to a paragraph of dry information.
- Immediately after their arrival in 1820, the missionaries studied the Hawaiian language, analyzed it, and in 1826 established its orthography.
- Attempts have been made to revitalize the Hawaiian language through educational programs at the university and the elementary school levels.
- The British loss has been often overlooked because of the havoc wreaked on the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, three days earlier.
- Cruise ships can visit the four main Hawaiian islands - Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii - in one seven - to 10-day trip.
- These days, children learn hula at an early age, along with Hawaiian language and culture and related skills like collecting forest materials for leis.
- The Hawaiian language, considered a crucial aspect of cultural identity, has been the object of renewed attention.
- Similarly, the Hawaiian roll, with spicy tuna and pineapple wrapped in cucumber, contrasts the heat of the tuna with the sweetness of the pineapple.
- The Kaiapuni program was established in 1987 as an attempt to revitalize the Hawaiian language after it was banned in Hawaii for nearly a century.
- But now many of these Hawaiian reefs are becoming too overcrowded for the surfers who pioneered them, and those who are able may charter a yacht with a few friends and head off to little-known offshore reefs away from the masses.
- Staff will be dressing in shorts, Hawaiian shirts, bikinis, flower garlands and grass skirts, and there will be hula-hooping, hula dancing and limbo competitions in aid of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Unit.
- They viewed the re-establishment of the Hawaiian language in school as one step toward Hawaiians regaining the rights and privileges their people lost through colonization.
- The Coconut Marketplace is home to more than 70 shops in which you'll find precious Hawaiian mementos, fine artwork, antiques, jewelry, craft items, and so much more.
- Six-man canoes remain outrigger racing's cultural anchor - an aspect of Hawaiian tradition that is refreshingly unsullied by tourism or kitschy commercialization.
- The island of Molokai offers a traveler's dream - traditional Hawaiian culture, a top-drawer ecotourism resort, a gorgeous shoreline plunging to a superblue sea.
- The strong commitment Kaiapuni teachers have to preserving the Hawaiian culture and language is reflected in the ways their roles as teachers extend into other domains of their lives.
- I delight in growing plants from all over the world and can't see anything wrong with siting an Asian camellia next to a Hawaiian hibiscus - their shape, colours and form complement each other nicely.
- The hang-loose gesture of surf culture - a raised fist with the pinky and thumb out - is in fact the Hawaiian shaka gesture, communicating the spirit of aloha, or love and civility.
- 1.1Geology Relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption in which very fluid basaltic lava is produced, as is typical of volcanoes in Hawaii.
Example sentencesExamples - Diamonds are most commonly associated with Archean subcontinental lithosphere but nanodiamonds were recently reported from mantle xenoliths in EM1like Hawaiian basalts.
- A Hawaiian eruption involves the steady supply of fluid, relatively gas-poor magma to the vent.
- Hawaiian eruptions are characterized by lava-effusion (an eruption of lava which most commonly gives rise to lava flows).
Rhymes Brian, cyan, Gaian, Geminian, ion, iron, Ixion, lion, Lyon, Mayan, Narayan, O'Brien, Orion, Paraguayan, prion, Ryan, scion, Uruguayan, Zion Definition of Hawaiian in US English: Hawaiiannounhəˈwaɪənhəˈwīən 1A native or inhabitant of Hawaii. Example sentencesExamples - Along this fertile watershed, now part of Limahuli Garden, early Hawaiians grew crops, such as taro, that they'd brought with them in their canoes from Polynesia.
- The more traditional forms have resurged since the late 1960s, when native Hawaiians began rediscovering their historical culture.
- Cousteau and his crew of 22 are already in the islands, exploring the mid-ocean ecosystem that native Hawaiians view as their ancestral home.
- For Europeans, the possibility of traveling so far was quite radical, much like current views of space travel, and for Hawaiians it was a quantum leap beyond dugout canoes.
- Annexed by America in 1898 and granted statehood in 1959, Hawaiians have watched for decades as rich outsiders have swooped in and incinerated cultures.
- Initially the sugar planters hired native Hawaiians to work as contract laborers on the plantations.
- Passed down through generations, the kumulipo provided early Hawaiians with an explanation, in mythic terms, of the origin, beauty, and bounty of the land.
- But they were carriers of an ethic that viewed Hawaiians as ignorant children living in a fallen Eden, a view easily reinterpreted as reason for colonialism.
- Arch would not be around today if the native Hawaiians had not kept the mana (spiritual power) energy alive.
- In the 1970s, Hawaiians revived their traditional culture, and the state recognized Hawaiian as an official language.
- The painting raises another question: how can native Hawaiians preserve ancient traditions within the calabash of ideas and cultures that is contemporary Hawaii?
- Though Hawaiians dragged long, kelp-braided nets across the lagoons and deeper waters of their island homes, all knew better than to keep the jeweled Kole.
- Laupahoehoe Point became a ceremonial centre of great importance to native Hawaiians as well as the only canoe landing place along 50 miles of rugged coast.
- There has been a failure, in older histories, to recognize Hawaiians as active decision-makers in Hawaiian history.
- Compared to Hawaiians of European and Asian ancestry, native Hawaiians have continued to bear the brunt of the archipelago's health problems.
- But living in this beautiful island paradise hasn't sheltered Hawaiians from a serious fight being waged on the mainland - the battle against obesity.
- The possibility that the Hawaiian Islands become younger to the southeast was suspected by the ancient Hawaiians, long before any scientific studies were done.
- We were interested in the ways that Kaiapuni teachers' identities as educators and as Hawaiians were transformed by their participation in the immersion program.
- While we now know that the Hawaiians and Polynesians had large double-hulled boats, for the western world this idea was brand new.
- Though tourism booms in Hawaii, for example, aboriginal Hawaiians rank among the poorest and sickest inhabitants on the island.
2The Austronesian language of Hawaii. Example sentencesExamples - That's why taboo (tabu, Tongan, closely related to Hawaiian) is kapu in Hawaiian.
- Fewer than 2,500 people speak Hawaiian as their mother tongue, most of whom are older people.
- Some of them are clearly members of the Austronesian language family, the family that also includes such languages as Malay, Hawaiian, and Maori.
- In the 1970s, Hawaiians revived their traditional culture, and the state recognized Hawaiian as an official language.
- Of course, I noticed many mahu, the word for gay men in Tahitian and Hawaiian.
- The newspapers are considered a standard for written Hawaiian which was nearly extinct a few years ago, but has re-emerged as a language of daily use and scholarship.
- Maori r in many words corresponds to Hawaiian and Samoan l: aroha, Hawaiian aloha love; whare, Samoan fale house.
- I soon learned, however, that hapa, from hapa haole or half-white in Hawaiian, was my mixed race category between categories of race in America.
- This indigenous language immersion program was established as an attempt to revive Hawaiian after a century-long ban on the language was lifted.
- Some lawmakers want to require that Hawaiian be used on government signs and in government documents, although two bills on the matter have stalled.
adjectivehəˈwaɪənhəˈwīən 1Relating to Hawaii, its people, or their language. Example sentencesExamples - These days, children learn hula at an early age, along with Hawaiian language and culture and related skills like collecting forest materials for leis.
- The hang-loose gesture of surf culture - a raised fist with the pinky and thumb out - is in fact the Hawaiian shaka gesture, communicating the spirit of aloha, or love and civility.
- The Kaiapuni program was established in 1987 as an attempt to revitalize the Hawaiian language after it was banned in Hawaii for nearly a century.
- The strong commitment Kaiapuni teachers have to preserving the Hawaiian culture and language is reflected in the ways their roles as teachers extend into other domains of their lives.
- Prohibition of hula dancing provoked a ‘discursive insurrection’ against colonial law in the form of traditional stories of the dance in Hawaiian language newspapers.
- I delight in growing plants from all over the world and can't see anything wrong with siting an Asian camellia next to a Hawaiian hibiscus - their shape, colours and form complement each other nicely.
- Similarly, the Hawaiian roll, with spicy tuna and pineapple wrapped in cucumber, contrasts the heat of the tuna with the sweetness of the pineapple.
- Cruise ships can visit the four main Hawaiian islands - Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii - in one seven - to 10-day trip.
- Six-man canoes remain outrigger racing's cultural anchor - an aspect of Hawaiian tradition that is refreshingly unsullied by tourism or kitschy commercialization.
- The island of Molokai offers a traveler's dream - traditional Hawaiian culture, a top-drawer ecotourism resort, a gorgeous shoreline plunging to a superblue sea.
- The Coconut Marketplace is home to more than 70 shops in which you'll find precious Hawaiian mementos, fine artwork, antiques, jewelry, craft items, and so much more.
- The ukulele, the Hawaiian gift that enlivened vaudeville halls across North America and Europe in the early 20th century, has two exemplars in a glass case, next to a paragraph of dry information.
- Attempts have been made to revitalize the Hawaiian language through educational programs at the university and the elementary school levels.
- Staff will be dressing in shorts, Hawaiian shirts, bikinis, flower garlands and grass skirts, and there will be hula-hooping, hula dancing and limbo competitions in aid of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Unit.
- In fact, the majority of the resorts are located on Waikiki which was made popular in the 1800s by Hawaiian royalty who frequented the area for its beautiful beaches.
- But now many of these Hawaiian reefs are becoming too overcrowded for the surfers who pioneered them, and those who are able may charter a yacht with a few friends and head off to little-known offshore reefs away from the masses.
- Immediately after their arrival in 1820, the missionaries studied the Hawaiian language, analyzed it, and in 1826 established its orthography.
- They viewed the re-establishment of the Hawaiian language in school as one step toward Hawaiians regaining the rights and privileges their people lost through colonization.
- The Hawaiian language, considered a crucial aspect of cultural identity, has been the object of renewed attention.
- The British loss has been often overlooked because of the havoc wreaked on the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, three days earlier.
- 1.1Geology Relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption in which fluid basaltic lava is produced, as is typical of volcanoes in Hawaii.
Example sentencesExamples - A Hawaiian eruption involves the steady supply of fluid, relatively gas-poor magma to the vent.
- Hawaiian eruptions are characterized by lava-effusion (an eruption of lava which most commonly gives rise to lava flows).
- Diamonds are most commonly associated with Archean subcontinental lithosphere but nanodiamonds were recently reported from mantle xenoliths in EM1like Hawaiian basalts.
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