Lanai definitions

lə-nī'
The definition of a lanai is a patio or open-sided living area, or is one the Hawaiian islands.

An example of a lanai is a covered and tiled area outside of a condominium in Hawaii.

An example of Lanai is an island in the Hawaiian island which is west of Maui.

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A veranda or roofed patio.
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An island of central Hawaii west of Maui. It was used for pineapple production for much of the 1900s.
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A veranda or open-sided living room of a kind found in Hawaii.
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One of the Hawaiian Islands, west of Maui: 141 sq mi (365 sq km)
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(chiefly in Hawaii) A Hawaiian-style roofed patio.
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Origin of lanai

From Hawaiian lānai.

Sentence Examples

  • Kahoolawe and Lanai are both privately owned.

  • m., distributed as follows: Hawaii, 4210; Maui, 728; Oahu, about 600; Kauai, 547; Molokai, 261; Lanai, 139; Niihau, 97; Kahoolawe, 69.

  • The small islands of Lanai, Niihau and Kahoolawe are devoted chiefly to the raising of sheep and cattle - Niihau is one large privately owned sheep-ranch.

  • The population of 1900 was distributed among the several islands as follows: Oahu, 58,404; Hawaii, 46,843; Maui and Lanai, 25,416; Kauai, 20,562; Molokai, 2504; Niihau, 172.

  • He laid stress on the importance of manual and industrial training during his term of office (1847-1855), and was succeeded by a board of education (1855-1865), of which he was first president; then an inspector-general of schools was appointed, Judge Abraham Fornander being the first inspector; in 1896 an executive department was created under a minister of public instruction and six corn 1 These are: the county of Hawaii, consisting of the island of the same name; the county of Maui, including the islands of Maui, Lanai and Kahoolawe, and the greater part of Molokai; the county of Kalawao, being the leper settlement on Molokai; the city and county of Honolulu (created from the former county of Oahu by an act of 1907, which came into effect in 1909), consisting of the island of Oahu and various small islands, of which the only ones of any importance are the Midway Islands, 1232 m.

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