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Polynesian

[pol-uh-nee-zhuhn, -shuhn]

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adjective

of or pertaining to Polynesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.

noun

a member of any of a number of brown-skinned peoples, variously classified as to race, of distinctive customs, speaking closely related Austronesian languages, who inhabit Polynesia.

the easternmost group of Austronesian languages, including Maori, Tahitian, Samoan, Hawaiian, and the language of Easter Island.

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Origin:
1805–15; Polynesi(a) + -an

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Polynesian (ˌpɒlɪˈniːʒən, -ʒɪən)

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to Polynesia, its people, or any of their languages

—n
2.	a member of the people that inhabit Polynesia, generally of Caucasoid features with light skin and wavy hair
3.	a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian family of languages, including Māori and Hawaiian and a number of other closely related languages of the S and central Pacific

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"A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them."

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