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Hawaiian Kingdom

[ huh-wahy-uhn king-duhm, -wah-yuhn ]

noun

  1. a former sovereign nation of the North Pacific formed in 1795, which by 1810 comprised the entire Hawaiian archipelago: overthrown in 1893 by an illegal coup d’état led in large part by Americans with business interests in Hawaii.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Hawaiian Kingdom1

First recorded in 1840–45

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Example Sentences

Your sect (and remember, as far as any sect avows me, it is mine) has not done ill in a worldly sense in the Hawaiian Kingdom.

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