Definition of Polynesian. Meaning of Polynesian. Synonyms of Polynesian

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Definition of Polynesian

Polynesian
Polynesian Pol`y*ne"sian, a. Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.
Polynesian
Polynesians Pol`y*ne"sians, n. pl.; sing. Polynesian. (Ethnol.) The race of men native in Polynesia.

Meaning of Polynesian from wikipedia

- Look up Polynesian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polynesian is the adjectival form of Polynesia. It may refer to: Polynesians, an ethnic group Polynesian...
- The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians. They have many things in common, including linguistic relations, cultural...
- Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encomp****es the islands within the Polynesian...
- The Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages...
- The Polynesian Triangle is a region of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: The US state of Hawaii, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and...
- The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages...
- Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific...
- archipelagos in the Polynesian Triangle) together with those of the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers. Polynesians speak languages that...
- The Polynesian rat, Pacific rat or little rat (Rattus exulans), or kiore, is the third most widespread species of rat in the world behind the brown rat...
- administered from French Polynesia until 2007. Hundreds of years after the Great Polynesian Migration, European explorers began traveling through the region, visiting...