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Webster 1913 Edition


Fijian

Fi′ji-an

,
Adj.
Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
Noun.
A native of the Fiji islands.
[Written also
Feejeean
,
Feejee
.]

Definition 2024


Fijian

Fijian

See also: fijian

English

Alternative forms

(obsolete spellings): Feejeean, Fejeean

Noun

Fijian (plural Fijians)

  1. A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.

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Adjective

Fijian (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to Fiji, or its people or language.
    • 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 3
      she wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean.

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Proper noun

Fijian

  1. an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

fijian m (definite singular fijianen, indefinite plural fijianar, definite plural fijianane)

  1. Fijian (person)

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Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌfi.d͡ʒiˈan/

Noun

fijian m (plural fijieni, feminine equivalent fijiană)

  1. Fijian

Adjective

fijian m, n (feminine singular fijiană, masculine plural fijieni, feminine and neuter plural fijiene)

  1. Fijian

Declension