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Definition of Maori
1. Noun. An ethnic minority of Polynesian and Melanesian descent who speak Maori and live in New Zealand.
2. Noun. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori in New Zealand.
Definition of Maori
1. n. One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand.
Definition of Maori
1. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to the Maori. ¹
2. Noun. Language of the Maori. ¹
3. Noun. Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand. ¹
4. Noun. Member of the people of New Zealand. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Maori
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Maori
Literary usage of Maori
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"by an agricultural and pastoral people, and must farm or die: the maori does
farm ; maori chiefs own villages, build houses, which they let to European ..."
2. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1920)
"NOTE ON THE maori VERB.* BY HG SETH-SMITH. RUSSIAN Grammarians, in their classification
... Taking the scheme set out in the last edition of Williams' maori ..."
3. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1905)
"Figures 1, 2, and 3, are Egyptians, figure 4 is a maori woman, though her face,
generally, is scarcely the maori type. We also reproduce from the same ..."
4. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"maori Scroll Patterns. By J. Edge-Partington. «-• Mr. Tregear is of opinion that
the word manata ... These two latter meanings evidently represent the maori ..."
5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1899)
"Prior to the arrival of Europeans in these southern seas, the maori of New Zealand
was living in a state of society that certainly appears to have suited ..."
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