Definition of Polynesians. Meaning of Polynesians. Synonyms of Polynesians

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Definition of Polynesians

Polynesians
Polynesians Pol`y*ne"sians, n. pl.; sing. Polynesian. (Ethnol.) The race of men native in Polynesia.
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 Polynesians from wikipedia

- New Zealand had the highest po****tion of Polynesians, estimated at 110,000 in the 18th century. Polynesians have acquired a re****tion as great navigators...
- analysis of modern Polynesians indicates that there has been intermarriage resulting in a mixed Austronesian-Papuan ancestry of the Polynesians (as with other...
- Look up Polynesian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polynesian is the adjectival form of Polynesia. It may refer to: Polynesians, an ethnic group Polynesian...
- South Pacific by migrant Malayo-Polynesian people (see also Lapita culture). There is also some evidence that Polynesians ventured as far east as Salas...
- Polynesians who had traveled to South America and back, and spread across Polynesia to Hawaii and New Zealand from there. While the early Polynesians...
- kilometres of the open Pacific Ocean. Polynesians made contact with nearly every island within the vast Polynesian Triangle, using outrigger canoes or double-hulled...
- archipelagos in the Polynesian Triangle) together with those of the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers. Polynesians speak languages that...
- prominent Polynesian languages, by number of speakers, are Samoan, Tongan, Tahitian, Māori and Hawaiian. The ancestors of modern Polynesians were Lapita...
- the Free French Forces and many Polynesians served in World War II. Unknown at the time to the French and Polynesians, the Konoe Cabinet in Imperial ****an...
- no dogs in the Chatham Islands at the time of European arrival. The Polynesians raised dogs for companionship and food. Along with domesticated pigs...