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Fijian

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See also: fijian

English

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Etymology

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From Fiji +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: fē-jē'ən, fĭ-jē'ən, IPA(key): /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/, /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːən

Noun

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Fijian (plural Fijians)

  1. A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.

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Adjective

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Fijian (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.
    • 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch [], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, pages 37–38:
      [S]he 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

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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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