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单词 Hawaiki
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Hawaiki

/həˈwʌɪki /
noun [mass noun] NZ
The legendary Pacific homeland of the Maori people, from which they are supposed to have travelled to New Zealand and to where their spirits are believed to return after death: there were seven canoes that came from Hawaiki, so there are seven tribes...
  • They then move through the underworld on a long journey to their spiritual home of Hawaiki.
  • The Maori chief was said to have made his own way from Hawaiki on the back of a ray.
  • Maori are the tangata whenua (indigenous people) of New Zealand, landing 1000 years ago from the mythical Polynesian homeland of Hawaiki.

Origin

Late 18th century: Maori.

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