Definition of mia-mia in English:

mia-mia

noun ˈmʌɪəˌmʌɪə

Australian

An Aboriginal hut or shelter.
〈澳〉土著小屋；土著民居
Example sentencesExamples
- The following day, Wills was so weak, he could scarcely crawl out of the mia-mia on the south bank of the Cooper.
- These were removed from the roofs of living shelters erected for protection from wet season rains done either on sheets of gum-tree bark that form the walls of their mia-mias, or on the roofs and walls of their rock-shelters, and represent animals and mythological gnomes and spirits, of whom they stand in dread.
- They had grown so careless that they did not think of pitching their mia-mias where no one could see them from a distance.
- At their campsites, Aborigines constructed simple huts, called mia-mias, using stone hatchets to remove sheets of bark from trees.
- The author challenges some previously strongly held opinions about the Aborigines: that their only shelters were frail mia-mias, that they had no attachment to a particular area of land, and that they were simple hunters and gatherers.

Origin

From Wathawurung (an extinct Aboriginal language) or Nyungar.

词汇	mia-mia
释义	Definition of mia-mia in English: mia-mia noun ˈmʌɪəˌmʌɪə Australian An Aboriginal hut or shelter. 〈澳〉土著小屋；土著民居 Example sentencesExamples The following day, Wills was so weak, he could scarcely crawl out of the mia-mia on the south bank of the Cooper. These were removed from the roofs of living shelters erected for protection from wet season rains done either on sheets of gum-tree bark that form the walls of their mia-mias, or on the roofs and walls of their rock-shelters, and represent animals and mythological gnomes and spirits, of whom they stand in dread. They had grown so careless that they did not think of pitching their mia-mias where no one could see them from a distance. At their campsites, Aborigines constructed simple huts, called mia-mias, using stone hatchets to remove sheets of bark from trees. The author challenges some previously strongly held opinions about the Aborigines: that their only shelters were frail mia-mias, that they had no attachment to a particular area of land, and that they were simple hunters and gatherers. Origin From Wathawurung (an extinct Aboriginal language) or Nyungar.
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