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US
/həˈwaɪən/
]
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language
NOUN
- a native or resident of Hawaii
- the Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii
How To Use Hawaiian In A Sentence
- You may have heard of "irresistible" letters -- sales letters that would sell electric fans to Esquimaux or ice skates to Hawaiians, collection letters that make the thickest skinned debtor remit by return mail, and other kinds of resultful, masterful letters that pierce to the very soul. How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence
- Her longings grew more varied and virulent with each passing year: raw pig meat, Hawaiian pineapples infeasible to procure in revolutionary Cuba, chewing tobacco, cockscomb stew. The Lady Matador’s Hotel
- The figure enters the building and the several scientists are clad in Hawaiian luau apparel, getting ready for the end of the season party. The Movie Spoiler
- The painting raises another question: how can native Hawaiians preserve ancient traditions within the calabash of ideas and cultures that is contemporary Hawaii?
- A throwback to the Polynesian craze that swept North America in the '50s and '60s, the restaurant is full of Eastern Island statuettes, wooden tikis and a Hawaiian ukulele soundtrack.
- Chants and oral traditions suggest native Hawaiians also visited other islands and atolls in the chain.
- Despite its similarities to the Canada goose, the nene is a true Hawaiian down to its toes.
- Like the Hawaiian Islands, the tropical Marquesas Islands are extremely isolated and all flora and fauna present are the result of long-distance colonization and in situ evolution for thousands to millions of years. Marquesas tropical moist forests
- I joined that group shortly thereafter and it was there I met Isao Takahashi Sensei, a middle-aged nisei Hawaiian who spoke English with an accent having lived in Japan as a boy.
- The Pagoda, like hundreds of other buildings in Hawaii, sits on land leased from a trust established more than a century ago by a descendant of the ruler who united the major Hawaiian islands. Hawaii Local's Inside Play