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Maori

Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊri/

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Definition of Maori

noun (plural same or Maoris)

  • 1a member of the aboriginal people of New Zealand.
  • 2 [mass noun] the Polynesian language of the Maoris, with about 100,000 speakers.

adjective

  • relating to the Maoris or their language.

The Maoris arrived in New Zealand as part of a series of waves of migration from Tahiti, probably from the 9th century onwards. They lost large amounts of land in the colonization of New Zealand by the British, and now number about 280,000

Derivatives

Maoridom

noun

Origin:

the name in Maori

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