aloha

Noun

aloha (plural alohas)

1. (Hawaii) Good wishes, love, compassion, peacefulness and affection.
   • When I got back to Hawaii, a feeling of aloha flooded me, and my anxiety vanished.
   • Traveling as the princess regent with a retinue that included Princess Ruth and Queen Kapi‘olani, Lili‘u was welcomed by enormous crowds and lavish outpourings of aloha, as her subjects clasped her knees and kissed her hands and feet to show their reverence.2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 91
2. (Hawaii) An utterance of aloha (see Interjection, below).

Interjection

1. (Hawaii) Expressing good wishes when greeting or parting from someone; hello; goodbye.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Aloha

Aloha

1. An unincorporated community in Grant Parish, Louisiana.
2. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Cheboygan County, Michigan.
3. A census-designated place in Washington County, Oregon.
4. An unincorporated community in Grays Harbor County, Washington.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: ALOHA

ALOHA

1. (US, abbreviation, acronym, historical) Acronym of Aboriginal Lands of Hawaiian Ancestry, a Hawaiian organization seeking reparations for Native Hawaiians.
2. (Internet, historical) ALOHAnet (an early computer networking system).