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say it: MOW-ree
maori is a noun meaning "an ethnic minority of Polynesian and Melanesian descent who speak Maori and live in New Zealand". It is pronounced /ˈmaʊɹi/ — MOW-ree. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an ethnic minority of Polynesian and Melanesian descent who speak Maori and live in New Zealand
the Oceanic language spoken by the Maori in New Zealand
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for maori come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.