Meaning of Polynesian | Babel Free
Definitions
- A person from Polynesia.
- A language group spoken by these people.
Equivalents
العربية
بولينيزي
Català
polinesi
Español
polinesio
Suomi
polynesialainen
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
Polenekia
Magyar
polinéz
Português
polinésio
Svenska
polynesier
Examples
“He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.”
“Blackbirding was the euphemism given to the slave-trading that occurred in the Pacific from the mid-1800s through to the early-1900s. According to one study, blackbirding, [as] “the practice of luring Melanesians and Polynesians to toil for next to nothing was called”, involved upwards of 60,000 people between 1863 and 1904 (Horne, 2007, p. 2).”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See also
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