LANAI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lanai mean? 

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

1. an island of central Hawaii; a pineapple-growing area

2. a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room

  Familiarity information: LANAI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANAI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island of central Hawaii; a pineapple-growing area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Lanai; Lanai Island

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Lanai" is a part of...):

H.I.; Hawaiian Islands; Sandwich Islands (a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

gallery; veranda; verandah (a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed))

Domain region:

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