TAHITI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tahiti mean? 

• TAHITI (noun)
  The noun TAHITI has 1 sense:

1. an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin

  Familiarity information: TAHITI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAHITI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Tahiti"):

Papeete (the capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti)

Meronyms (members of "Tahiti"):

Tahitian (a native or inhabitant of Tahiti)

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

Society Islands (an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa)

Derivation:

Tahitian (of or relating to or characteristic of the island of Tahiti or its residents or their language and culture)

 Context examples 

He strove in vain to see Tahiti again.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The visions of Tahiti—clean, sweet Tahiti—were coming to him more frequently.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What when the steamer reached Tahiti?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Fashions changed in trading, and he knew he would have to wait till he reached Tahiti before ordering his trade-goods.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Mariposa sailed for Tahiti in five days.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was Moti, the youngest son of Tati, the chief, and this was Tahiti, and beyond that smoking reef lay the sweet land of Papara and the chief's grass house by the river's mouth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)