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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Native Hawaiian.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of the Hawaiian Islands or the state of Hawaii.
  • noun The Polynesian language of Hawaii.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the island or kingdom of Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, a group of islands in the North Pacific about 2,100 miles west-southwest of San Francisco.
  • noun A native or citizen of Hawaii.
  • noun The language of Hawaii.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a person Descended from the peoples inhabiting the Hawaiian islands prior to European contact.
  • adjective Of or having to do with the Hawaiian race, culture, or language.
  • adjective Of or having to do with the culture of the US state of Hawaii.
  • adjective Of or having to do with a resident of the US state of Hawaii.
  • noun A descendant of the peoples inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to European contact.
  • noun A resident of the US state of Hawaii.
  • noun A pizza topped with ham and pineapple.
  • proper noun The Hawaiian language.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii
  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language
  • noun a native or resident of Hawaii

Etymologies

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Hawaii +‎ -an

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