native hawaiian

1. 1.

   a member or descendant of the indigenous Polynesian people who lived in the Hawaiian Islands

   BroaderHawaiian

Questions about native hawaiian

What does native hawaiian mean?

native hawaiian means "a member or descendant of the indigenous Polynesian people who lived in the Hawaiian Islands".

Is native hawaiian a common word?

native hawaiian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.