Maori meaning

mou'rē
A member of a people of New Zealand, of Polynesian-Melanesian ancestry.
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Of or relating to the Maori or their language or culture.
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The Austronesian language of the Maori.
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A member of a Polynesian people native to New Zealand.
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The Austronesian language of this people.
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Of the Maoris or their language or culture.
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The Polynesian people native to New Zealand.
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A member of the Polynesian people native to New Zealand.
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The language of the Polynesian people native to New Zealand.
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Of or pertaining to the Maori people, culture, or language.
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Origin of maori

  • Maori Māori from māori ordinary people
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Maori Māori
    From Wiktionary

Maori Sentence Examples

  • The museum contains one of the best existing collections of Maori art.

  • Many of the myths of the origin of the divine beings are on a level with the Maori theory that Heaven and Earth begat them in the ordinary way.

  • The whole system, as far as it can be called a system, of Maori mythology is obviously based on the savage conceptions of the world which have already been explained.

  • We didn't discover the Maori word for cabaret artistes.

  • The Maori also possess considerable astronomical knowledge, including that of a planet that wears a circlet or headband (46 ).

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