Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native-born or longtime resident of the Hawaiian Islands.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A hiki aku ua wahi kanaka kamaaina nei a halawai me Haunaka; a lohe o
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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KAMAAINA: LOCAL AT HEART The Hawaiian word kamaaina means someone who is native born or who has lived in Hawaii for some time.
WN.com - Articles related to Hawaii sends tourism sales team to China 2010
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KAMAAINA: LOCAL AT HEART The Hawaiian word kamaaina means someone who is native born or who has lived in Hawaii for some time.
WN.com - Articles related to Hawaii sends tourism sales team to China 2010
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KAMAAINA: LOCAL AT HEART The Hawaiian word kamaaina means someone who is native born or who has lived in Hawaii for some time.
WN.com - Articles related to Hawaii sends tourism sales team to China 2010
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KAMAAINA: LOCAL AT HEART The Hawaiian word kamaaina means someone who is native born or who has lived in Hawaii for some time.
WN.com - Articles related to Hawaii sends tourism sales team to China 2010
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Kamaaina receive $100 off by using the code "kamaaina" in the online registration process. $395 for students and teachers with proper identification.
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In other words, or, rather, in the potent Islands-word, they were kamaaina.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Since that time, in the course of various long stays, he had earned the kamaaina distinction.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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They speculate on what might happen if Abel Ah Yo got John Ward in his clutches, and vote that this grand old kamaaina deserved to be presented with tickets to his ancestral home in Sag Harbor and expenses for a year's trip.
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If you can judge the quality of a person by a handshake you can surely judge kamaaina by the soundness of a shaka ... and the beat of Barack Obama's shaka flows straight from his roots.
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