How do you use Tahitian in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like island or polynesian, plus the exact meaning.
Tahitian meaning
- A native or inhabitant of Tahiti.
- A person from Tahiti or of Tahitian descent.
Synonyms of Tahitian
Using Tahitian
- The main meaning on this page is: A native or inhabitant of Tahiti. | A person from Tahiti or of Tahitian descent.
- Useful related words include: island, polynesian, oceanic, eastern malayo-polynesian.
- In the example corpus, tahitian often appears in combinations such as: the tahitian, and tahitian.
Context around Tahitian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tahitian
- In this selection, "tahitian" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, zombie, waves, shows, heritage, girls and born stand out and add context to how "tahitian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include académie tahitienne tahitian academy recommends and angry shows tahitian women in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tahitian" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tahitian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Jay Jay and Jensen will dance Tahitian. (7 words)
A polished basalt breadfruit pounder used by the Tahitian people of French Polynesia. (13 words)
Alcoholism, murder, disease and other ills took the lives of most mutineers and Tahitian men. (15 words)
Tahitian dancers in palm-leaf skirts mingled with Olympic surfers, locals and tourists as the opening ceremony for the Summer Games commenced in French Polynesia on Friday morning, some 10,000 miles away from the main ceremony in Paris. (39 words)
I was lucky to visit a perfumery in New Orleans where I got to come up with a personalized scent from scratch--it was based on musk from China, Tahitian vanilla, Irish moss, amber, and bergamot. (36 words)
He is credited with creating cocktails including the Zombie, Tahitian Rum Punch, one version of the Mai Tai, and the Navy Grog (ironically, Gantt was a Major in the Air Force) among many others. (34 words)
Example sentences (18)
Delight your taste buds with local delicacies, including the famed Rotui, a pineapple beverage steeped in Tahitian heritage.
The Tahitian girls will face New Caledonia (coming off a 3-1 victory over American Samoa) starting at 1 PM.
Two or three times a week, the Tahitian-born marine scientist heads out for an early-morning dive.
I have a little bit of a Tahitian background, so he put that in there to make it more personal.
Tahitian dancers in palm-leaf skirts mingled with Olympic surfers, locals and tourists as the opening ceremony for the Summer Games commenced in French Polynesia on Friday morning, some 10,000 miles away from the main ceremony in Paris.
He is credited with creating cocktails including the Zombie, Tahitian Rum Punch, one version of the Mai Tai, and the Navy Grog (ironically, Gantt was a Major in the Air Force) among many others.
Other fragrances rounding out the brand’s new tropical line include Turquoise Waters, Blue Ocean Waves, Tahitian Coconut, Sun-Washed Citrus, Lavender Sea, Sun-Drenched Blooms, Island Papaya, and Aquamarine Shores.
A film from Skaer’s ongoing collaboration with Rosalind Nashashibi, Why are you angry?, shows Tahitian women in tableaux which reference the paintings of Gauguin.
I was lucky to visit a perfumery in New Orleans where I got to come up with a personalized scent from scratch--it was based on musk from China, Tahitian vanilla, Irish moss, amber, and bergamot.
Jay Jay and Jensen will dance Tahitian.
Observers have long wondered what Disneyland officials planned to eventually do with that Adventureland space, which opened in June 1962 as the Tahitian Terrace, which featured a Polynesian style meal and show.
Alcoholism, murder, disease and other ills took the lives of most mutineers and Tahitian men.
A polished basalt breadfruit pounder used by the Tahitian people of French Polynesia.
By contrast, Hawaiian and Tahitian have about 152 cognates in the list, so they are estimated as being 76% genetically related.
From Davies’ perspective the Tahitian were placed under detention at Tongatapu: “The chief called Tupou would not let them proceed.
Many Tahitian island resorts regularly offer guests the chance to "feed the stingrays and sharks".
The Fare Vānaʻa or Académie Tahitienne (Tahitian Academy) recommends using the macron, called the tārava, to represent long vowels in written text, especially for scientific or teaching texts.
Unlike the Oriental Natural, the Akoya pearl, and the South Sea and Tahitian cultured pearls, abalone pearls are not primarily judged by their roundness.
Common combinations with tahitian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: