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Definition of Fijian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Fiji or its people or language or culture. "Fijian folktales"
2. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Fiji.
3. Noun. The Oceanic language spoken on Fiji.
Definition of Fijian
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
Definition of Fijian
1. Noun. a person from Fiji or of Fijian descent. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to Fiji, or its people or language. ¹
3. Proper noun. an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fijian
Literary usage of Fijian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1847)
"Note on the fijian language. Mr. Norris, the learned secretary of the Royal
Asiatic Society of Great Britain, who is accurately acquainted with the idiom of ..."
2. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"CHAPTER V THE fijian STRAND-FLORA The inland extension of the beach plants.—The
grouping of the coast plants.— Their modes of dispersal. ..."
3. The new nation by John Morris (1880)
"fijian Tuva, to place in regular order. ... Greek Theophania, the festival of
the Nati ,'ity. fijian ..."
4. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"fijian Convicts. Log Drum. Native Hairdressing. Kaava Drinking. Buying Stone Adzes.
... fijian Fortifications and Tombs. A Chiefs Mouse and his Children. ..."
5. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1865)
"The other instance is in Fiji, where the daughter of an Englishman by a fijian
woman, has for many years been the wife of a fijian chief. ..."
6. The hill tribes of fiji: A Record of Forty Years' Intimate Connection with by Adolph Brewster Brewster (1922)
"It was a regular family gathering, and we had all behaved affectionately and
nicely to each other. It was in December, the fijian summer, and blazing hot. ..."
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