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Definition of Polynesian in English: Polynesianadjective pɒlɪˈniːzɪənpɒlɪˈniːʒənˌpɑləˈniʒən Relating to Polynesia, its people, or their languages. 波利尼西亚的；波利尼西亚人的；波利尼西亚语的 Example sentencesExamples - In the Polynesian language Tokelauan, one uses a circumfix - that is, a kind of ‘earphone’ consisting of a prefix AND a suffix - to indicate reciprocity.
- The military ethnic classification for active duty personnel places Tongans and Tahitians in the Polynesian category.
- With the exception of a few Polynesian outliers, the languages spoken among the islanders of Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, and the coral atolls of Yap State are classified as Nuclear Micronesian.
- Her in-depth study of Polynesian art will ensure that the shop's section of Polynesian art will be well looked after.
- Mid-century Americans flocked to trendy new Polynesian restaurants, to sip exotic drinks served in mugs shaped like miniature Easter Island heads and topped with colorful paper umbrellas.
- There are now only 47 people on Pitcairn, a community founded by nine mutineers from the Bounty, their Polynesian consorts and six Polynesian men in 1790.
- Maori belongs to the Tahitic branch of the Eastern Polynesian language group.
- Before Cook's arrival, movement between islands of the country was regular and often involved people from other Melanesian and Polynesian islands.
- Many Polynesian languages face an uncertain future.
- Perhaps the Minister could tell the Committee whether the name comes from elsewhere in Polynesia, because I am not sure whether Pua-hoku is a Maori name or is from another Polynesian language.
- An Australian biotech corporation has purchased the exclusive global rights to the entire gene pool of the people of Tonga, a Polynesian nation of some 110,000 people.
- Lashing is an ancient Pacific language that was used to interpret the environment and represented Polynesian philosophies, says Filipe.
- If the reverse is true that trading voyages originated from South America and went across Polynesia, one would expect to find male South American lineages in Polynesian populations and there is no report of that yet.
- Melanesian and Polynesian peoples settled the Fijian islands some 3,500 years ago.
- There are find tables, genealogies, articles and databases covering everything from Greek myth to Polynesian creation stories, arranged by continent.
- Common mythology insists that the modern European tattoo was adopted as a variant of Polynesian custom.
- This language feature is unknown among European languages but common among Polynesian ones.
- What do you see as the essential difference between Polynesian hip-hop and American hip-hop?
- I think those who are, shall we say, defending them, are saying it's unfair to apply 20th century British law to this isolate Polynesian community in the South Pacific.
- The majority of people speak Tuvaluan, a Polynesian language, except for the inhabitants of Nui who speak a mainly Gilbertese dialect.
noun pɒlɪˈniːzɪənpɒlɪˈniːʒənˌpɑləˈniʒən 1A native or inhabitant of Polynesia, or a person of Polynesian descent. 波利尼西亚土著，波利尼西亚居民，波利尼西亚人 Example sentencesExamples - The Polynesians are the original inhabitants of a vast string of islands in the Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand in the south to Hawaii in the north.
- It was settled by other Polynesians coming from the west, sometime around AD800 and it was so remote that after Polynesians arrived at Easter Island, nobody else arrived there.
- Life is hard for the descendants of the Polynesians and crew members of the Bounty.
- Anglo's, Polynesians and Arabs probably made up the majority.
- That's what Polynesians call the fruit they're made from.
- And at this point you maybe thinking that collapses are something that befall only Polynesians and Native Americans, we Europeans would surely never make such mistakes.
- Yesterday was something of a red-letter day for the tiny island of Samoa, a speck in the Pacific Ocean that is home to a quarter of a million Polynesians who punch way over their weight in sporting terms.
- Settlers have brought many changes to the Hawaiian Islands, beginning with the degradation of the native lowlands when the Polynesians arrived more than 1,000 years ago.
- The court is regularly used by a mixture of Anglos, Koreans, Polynesians, and Armenians and by a Nigerian contingent who live in North Parramatta.
- Nine thousand people live on these nine atolls, 95 percent of whom are Polynesians, having arrived variously from Samoa, Tonga, and Uvea over the past 2,000 years.
- With a population of some 4000 Polynesians, 40 Europeans and 50 tourists, Tahaa makes Papeete seem like Manhattan.
- Hawaii probably had 1,765 species of native plants when the Polynesians first arrived, and over 90% of them were found nowhere else.
- The use of fish also raises the point that it is easier and cheaper for Polynesians to buy canned fish rather than to catch their own, thus devastating one of their great traditions and removing them from nature.
- The whites-only policy continued - at first even Japanese war brides were banned and thousands of Asians and Polynesians who had found shelter here during the war were deported.
- Many of the Polynesians, newly-arrived in New Zealand, experienced difficulty with the jargon and format of the social security forms and so, almost every week, there would be a new arrival seeking Dad's help with the paperwork.
- Using the unique DNA of Polynesians, Autogen Limited plans to link their genes to certain diseases and then engineer drugs that could put hundreds of millions of dollars into its own corporate coffers.
- Brando foresaw the atoll being handed on to future generations of his children, ‘many of whom are, or will be, Polynesian, so that this property, to a large extent, will be owned by Polynesians in the future’.
- In Hawaii, these commercial hybrids are quite distinct from many Saccharum officinarum canes still in existence that were brought to the islands and cultivated by the native Polynesians.
- The new power brokers who run the government, mass media, and mass education institutions are still suppressing any knowledge that the people who founded the New Zealand culture of today were not Polynesians or Europeans but British.
- The Maori, the inhabitants of New Zealand when Cook arrived there, were descendants of the Polynesians who arrived in the islands around ad 800.
2mass noun A group of Austronesian languages spoken in Polynesia, including Maori, Hawaiian, and Samoan. 波利尼西亚语（包括毛利语，夏威夷语和萨摩亚语） Example sentencesExamples - Our word tattoo comes from Polynesian, and it is the traditional ‘tatau’ from midriff to knees which Lafaele etches into men's bodies; a rite of passage for many young Samoans.
- Yup, thanks to satellite television, my daughter now speaks Polynesian.
- The word tattoo, derived from tau-tau (tap tap), however, is Polynesian brought to Europe by Captain Cook from Tahiti in 1769.
Definition of Polynesian in US English: PolynesianadjectiveˌpäləˈnēZHənˌpɑləˈniʒən Relating to Polynesia, its people, or their languages. 波利尼西亚的；波利尼西亚人的；波利尼西亚语的 Example sentencesExamples - This language feature is unknown among European languages but common among Polynesian ones.
- The military ethnic classification for active duty personnel places Tongans and Tahitians in the Polynesian category.
- The majority of people speak Tuvaluan, a Polynesian language, except for the inhabitants of Nui who speak a mainly Gilbertese dialect.
- There are now only 47 people on Pitcairn, a community founded by nine mutineers from the Bounty, their Polynesian consorts and six Polynesian men in 1790.
- With the exception of a few Polynesian outliers, the languages spoken among the islanders of Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, and the coral atolls of Yap State are classified as Nuclear Micronesian.
- In the Polynesian language Tokelauan, one uses a circumfix - that is, a kind of ‘earphone’ consisting of a prefix AND a suffix - to indicate reciprocity.
- Perhaps the Minister could tell the Committee whether the name comes from elsewhere in Polynesia, because I am not sure whether Pua-hoku is a Maori name or is from another Polynesian language.
- Her in-depth study of Polynesian art will ensure that the shop's section of Polynesian art will be well looked after.
- Melanesian and Polynesian peoples settled the Fijian islands some 3,500 years ago.
- I think those who are, shall we say, defending them, are saying it's unfair to apply 20th century British law to this isolate Polynesian community in the South Pacific.
- What do you see as the essential difference between Polynesian hip-hop and American hip-hop?
- If the reverse is true that trading voyages originated from South America and went across Polynesia, one would expect to find male South American lineages in Polynesian populations and there is no report of that yet.
- Many Polynesian languages face an uncertain future.
- Mid-century Americans flocked to trendy new Polynesian restaurants, to sip exotic drinks served in mugs shaped like miniature Easter Island heads and topped with colorful paper umbrellas.
- Lashing is an ancient Pacific language that was used to interpret the environment and represented Polynesian philosophies, says Filipe.
- There are find tables, genealogies, articles and databases covering everything from Greek myth to Polynesian creation stories, arranged by continent.
- An Australian biotech corporation has purchased the exclusive global rights to the entire gene pool of the people of Tonga, a Polynesian nation of some 110,000 people.
- Common mythology insists that the modern European tattoo was adopted as a variant of Polynesian custom.
- Before Cook's arrival, movement between islands of the country was regular and often involved people from other Melanesian and Polynesian islands.
- Maori belongs to the Tahitic branch of the Eastern Polynesian language group.
nounˌpäləˈnēZHənˌpɑləˈniʒən 1A native or inhabitant of Polynesia, or a person of Polynesian descent. 波利尼西亚土著，波利尼西亚居民，波利尼西亚人 Example sentencesExamples - Hawaii probably had 1,765 species of native plants when the Polynesians first arrived, and over 90% of them were found nowhere else.
- Using the unique DNA of Polynesians, Autogen Limited plans to link their genes to certain diseases and then engineer drugs that could put hundreds of millions of dollars into its own corporate coffers.
- And at this point you maybe thinking that collapses are something that befall only Polynesians and Native Americans, we Europeans would surely never make such mistakes.
- In Hawaii, these commercial hybrids are quite distinct from many Saccharum officinarum canes still in existence that were brought to the islands and cultivated by the native Polynesians.
- The whites-only policy continued - at first even Japanese war brides were banned and thousands of Asians and Polynesians who had found shelter here during the war were deported.
- The new power brokers who run the government, mass media, and mass education institutions are still suppressing any knowledge that the people who founded the New Zealand culture of today were not Polynesians or Europeans but British.
- Brando foresaw the atoll being handed on to future generations of his children, ‘many of whom are, or will be, Polynesian, so that this property, to a large extent, will be owned by Polynesians in the future’.
- The Polynesians are the original inhabitants of a vast string of islands in the Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand in the south to Hawaii in the north.
- Many of the Polynesians, newly-arrived in New Zealand, experienced difficulty with the jargon and format of the social security forms and so, almost every week, there would be a new arrival seeking Dad's help with the paperwork.
- The use of fish also raises the point that it is easier and cheaper for Polynesians to buy canned fish rather than to catch their own, thus devastating one of their great traditions and removing them from nature.
- That's what Polynesians call the fruit they're made from.
- The court is regularly used by a mixture of Anglos, Koreans, Polynesians, and Armenians and by a Nigerian contingent who live in North Parramatta.
- It was settled by other Polynesians coming from the west, sometime around AD800 and it was so remote that after Polynesians arrived at Easter Island, nobody else arrived there.
- Nine thousand people live on these nine atolls, 95 percent of whom are Polynesians, having arrived variously from Samoa, Tonga, and Uvea over the past 2,000 years.
- With a population of some 4000 Polynesians, 40 Europeans and 50 tourists, Tahaa makes Papeete seem like Manhattan.
- The Maori, the inhabitants of New Zealand when Cook arrived there, were descendants of the Polynesians who arrived in the islands around ad 800.
- Life is hard for the descendants of the Polynesians and crew members of the Bounty.
- Anglo's, Polynesians and Arabs probably made up the majority.
- Yesterday was something of a red-letter day for the tiny island of Samoa, a speck in the Pacific Ocean that is home to a quarter of a million Polynesians who punch way over their weight in sporting terms.
- Settlers have brought many changes to the Hawaiian Islands, beginning with the degradation of the native lowlands when the Polynesians arrived more than 1,000 years ago.
2A group of Austronesian languages spoken in Polynesia, including Maori, Hawaiian, and Samoan. 波利尼西亚语（包括毛利语，夏威夷语和萨摩亚语） Example sentencesExamples - The word tattoo, derived from tau-tau (tap tap), however, is Polynesian brought to Europe by Captain Cook from Tahiti in 1769.
- Our word tattoo comes from Polynesian, and it is the traditional ‘tatau’ from midriff to knees which Lafaele etches into men's bodies; a rite of passage for many young Samoans.
- Yup, thanks to satellite television, my daughter now speaks Polynesian.
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