Meaning of Aotearoa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The North Island of New Zealand.
   New-Zealand, obsolete
2. New Zealand, a country in Oceania; the Māori name, used especially in a Polynesian or precolonial context.
   New-Zealand

Equivalents

Examples

“he found in the sea this island Aotearoa (the northern island of New Zealand), and he thought he would land there.”

“Aotearoa / rugged individual / glistens like a pearl at the bottom of the world [...].”

“The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.”

“You were a professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and I know you went to Aotearoa to have some time there and gain some experiences.”

“There then arose a triangle of settlement across the vast Pacific, which had as its points Hawai‘i, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa.”

“"We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going," Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service.”

“In 2012, the two moved from Wellington back to the town where Jones was born, Kaitāia, in Aotearoa’s northern reaches.”

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