Definition of Kamehameha the great

1. Noun. Hawaiian king who united the islands under his rule (1758-1819).

Exact synonyms: Kamehameha I
Generic synonyms: King, Male Monarch, Rex

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kamehameha The Great

Kambojika
Kambojs
Kambuj
Kambuja
Kambujiya
Kamchadal
Kamchadals
Kamchatka
Kamchatka Peninsula
Kamchatkan
Kamchatkan sea eagle
Kamchatkans
Kamchukchee
Kamchukotic
Kamehameha I
Kamehameha the Great
Kameron
Kamet
Kami
Kamia
Kamilarai
Kamilaroi
Kammon Strait Bridge
Kammryn
Kampala
Kampong
Kampuchea
Kampuchean
Kampucheans
Kamryn

Literary usage of Kamehameha the great

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life in the Sandwich Islands: Or, The Heart of the Pacific, as it was and is by Henry Theodore Cheever (1856)
"... derived—We view the ocean from on high—Coffee plantation of a man from Maine—A relic from the times of Kamehameha the Great—The premises of a missionary ..."

2. Old Time Hawaiians and Their Work by Mary Stebbins Lawrence (1912)
"kamehameha the great, WHO UNITED THE ISLANDS Kamehameha I was born one stormy night in November, 1736, at Halawa, ..."

3. Seven Weeks in Hawaii by M. Leola Crawford (1917)
"There were many paintings of kings and queens, including one of Kamehameha the Great. I was not satisfied with so hasty a visit, and want to go again before ..."

4. Adventure Guide Maui by Sharon Hamblin (2005)
"Following Kamehameha the First Kamehameha's death in 1819, Liholiho, the heir of Kamehameha the Great who called himself Kamehameha II, ruled from 1819 to ..."

5. The Hawaiian Portion of the Polynesian Collections in the Peabody Museum of by Peabody Museum of Salem (1920)
"356 Statue of Kamehameha the Great, photograph of. Lent by Stephen W. Phillips. This statue is interesting as showing the great feather cloak of Kamehameha ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1908)
"... Kamehameha г.. worthily distinguished frcm his successors as "Kamehameha the great," who, born about the year 1736, achieved the unification of the ..."

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