Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- An island of the southern Pacific Ocean in the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It was first settled by Polynesians in the 14th century. Gaugin's best-known works were painted here.
Wiktionary
- n. The largest island in French Polynesia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin
Examples
“The work was originally conceived as a sequel to Mr. Bernstein's 1952 hit "Trouble in Tahiti," his one-act, jazz-tinged portrait of a rocky suburban marriage.”
“No one likes to think about days of rain, but it does happen (even in Tahiti & Tuscany), so you'll need to plan accordingly.”
“And if "Trouble in Tahiti," for which Bernstein wrote his own libretto, has a glibness to its satire, the sequel wears its heart on its sleeve, sometimes movingly, but often with an obviousness that borders on banality.”
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“Just curious; what's the weather like in Tahiti this time of year?”
“All the aspects of Gauguin's life that might have been side-stepped are thus examined through the art – the boorishness, drink and grotesque self-pity; the absurd outrage, on arriving in Tahiti, that Christian missionaries had got there before him so that he would have to mock up his own carved idols, smuggling them into the paintings as ancient artefacts.”
“On his last cruise he had shipped two strangers in Tahiti as mate and supercargo.”
“Let the Chinagos take the lesson to heart, the Court said finally, for they must learn that the law would be fulfilled in Tahiti though the heavens fell.”
“Native sailors from the ends of the seas knock about on the beach in Tahiti; and”
“Native sailors from the ends of the seas knock about on the beach in Tahiti, and Otoo, suspicious merely, went among them till he had gathered sufficient data to justify his suspicions.”
“Then we can move on to me paying for their health care and who knows, maybe the government will decide that everyone deserves a new boat, jet ski, and a vacation in Tahiti too!!!!!”
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