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Fijian   /fˈidʒiən/   Listen
Fijian

noun
1.
A native or inhabitant of Fiji.
2.
The Oceanic language spoken on Fiji.





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"Fijian" Quotes from Famous Books



... to know whether this was owing to some innate depravity of disposition on my part, some malignant torturing instinct, which, under different circumstances, might have made a Fijian anthropophagus of me, or to some law of thought for which I was not answerable. It is, I am convinced, a kind of physical fact like endosmosis, with which some of you are acquainted. A thin film of politeness ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)
... have among us many novelists—young ones luckily—who are true to the primitive and eternal Fijian canons of fiction. [Laughter.] We have Oriental romance from the author of "Plain Tales from the Hills." We have the humor and tenderness—certainly not Fijian I admit—which produced the masterpiece, "A Window ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... of Civilisation,' 1870, p. 321.) In the East men swear solemnly by their beards. We have seen that Chinsurdi, the chief of the Makalolo in Africa, thought that beards were a great ornament. In the Pacific the Fijian's beard is "profuse and bushy, and is his greatest pride"; whilst the inhabitants of the adjacent archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are "beardless, and abhor a rough chin." In one island alone of the Ellice group "the men are heavily bearded, ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... the population loss resulted in economic difficulties, but ensured that Melanesians became the majority. Amendments enacted in 1997 made the constitution more equitable. Free and peaceful elections in 1999 resulted in a government led by an Indo-Fijian, but a coup in May of 2000 ushered in a prolonged period of political turmoil. Parliamentary elections held in August 2001 provided Fiji with a democratically elected government and gave a mandate to the government of Prime Minister ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government


Words linked to "Fijian" :   Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Polynesian, oceanic, Republic of Fiji, Fiji


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