hawaii

ha-wai-i · proper_noun

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Definitions

proper_noun

  1. 1.

    A state of the United States comprising a group of islands in the central Pacific Ocean.

  2. 2.

    The largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago (also called the Big Island).

Related words

See also: Honolulu, hawaiian

Etymology

From Hawaiian Hawaiʻi, possibly from Proto-Polynesian Sawaiki, a legendary homeland. The meaning is uncertain but may relate to a homeland or place of the gods.