HAWAIIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hawaiian mean? 

• HAWAIIAN (noun)
  The noun HAWAIIAN has 2 senses:

1. the Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii

2. a native or resident of Hawaii

  Familiarity information: HAWAIIAN used as a noun is rare.

• HAWAIIAN (adjective)
  The adjective HAWAIIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language

  Familiarity information: HAWAIIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAWAIIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Hawaiian" is a kind of...):

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian; Oceanic (an eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages)

Domain region:

Aloha State; Haw.; Hawai'i; Hawaii; HI (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)

Derivation:

Hawaiian (of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A native or resident of Hawaii

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Hawaiian" is a kind of...):

American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Hawaiian"):

Native Hawaiian (a member or descendant of the indigenous Polynesian people who lived in the Hawaiian Islands)

Derivation:

Hawaiian (of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language)

• HAWAIIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Hawaii (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)

Hawaii (the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks)

Derivation:

Hawaii (a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands)

Hawaii (the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks)

Hawaiian (the Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii)

Hawaiian (a native or resident of Hawaii)

 Context examples 

The researchers have speculated this upwelling pattern may have occurred repeatedly during the volcanic process that produced the Hawaiian Island chain.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, will expand from 139,818 square miles to 582,578 square miles.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

Then I learned it all over again with variations from the Hawaiians.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For example, a strong association was found between a new genomic variant and smokers and their daily cigarette usage in Native Hawaiian participants.

(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)

The first operational dive of Okeanos Explorer’s 2016 season, on February 27, explored depths of over 4,000 meters northeast of Necker Island (Mokumanamana) in the Hawaiian Archipelago.

(Deep Discoverer Discovers a Very Deep, Ghostlike Octopod, NOAA)

The team dubbed it ‘Oumuamua (pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah), which means “a messenger from afar arriving first” in Hawaiian — and it’s already living up to its name.

(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)

The term covers particularly people who identify themselves as part-Hawaiian, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Carolinian, Samoan, Chuu.

(Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

AIDS related research with a minimum of 20% (or $100,000) relevance to individuals who are Asian/Pacific Islanders or Native Americans, including American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Hawaiian Natives.

(AIDS, Other Minorities, NCI Thesaurus)

A further consequence of a rigid ice shell, according to the study, is any outgassing of methane into Titan's atmosphere must happen at scattered hot spots — like the hot spot on Earth that gave rise to the Hawaiian Island chain.

(Ocean on Saturn moon could be as salty as the Dead Sea, NASA)

"Wiki-Wiki," his Hawaiian short story, was bought by Warren's Monthly for two hundred and fifty dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)