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Aotearoa

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New Zealand/aʊ.tɪəˈrɐʉ.a/literary/aʊ.teəˈroː.a/

Aotearoa proper noun: the North Island of New Zealand.

Proper noun

Aotearoa

  1. (New Zealand, obsolete) The North Island of New Zealand.
    • he found in the sea this island Aotearoa (the northern island of New Zealand), and he thought he would land there.1855, Sir George Grey, Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race: as furnished by their priests and chiefs
    Synonyms:
    North Island
  2. (New Zealand) New Zealand, a country in Oceania; the Māori name, used especially in a Polynesian or precolonial context.
    • Aotearoa / rugged individual / glistening like a pearl / at the bottom of the world [...].1981, Tim Finn, Split Enz, “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”
    • The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 877

Aotearoa meaning in Tamil

Aotearoa in Tamil

இது ஒரு நாடாகும்

Examples of Aotearoa in a sentence

  • You were a professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and I know you went to Aotearoa to have some time there and gain some experiences.2019, Kamaka Pili, “Ep. 37: Manulani Aluli Meyer - Hawaiian Epistemology” (4:35 from the start), in Aloha Authentic, via YouTube:
  • There then arose a triangle of settlement across the vast Pacific, which had as its points Hawai‘i, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 10:
  • "We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going," Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service.2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard...
  • In 2012, the two moved from Wellington back to the town where Jones was born, Kaitāia, in Aotearoa’s northern reaches.2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN:

Synonyms of Aotearoa

Origin of Aotearoa

Borrowed from Māori Aotearoa (“long white cloud; North Island; New Zealand”), see there for more.

Words formed from Aotearoa

Questions about Aotearoa

What does Aotearoa mean?
Aotearoa means the North Island of New Zealand.
What is Aotearoa in Tamil?
Aotearoa in Tamil is இது ஒரு நாடாகும். See Aotearoa meaning in Tamil.
How do you use Aotearoa in a sentence?
You were a professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and I know you went to Aotearoa to have some time there and gain some experiences.
What part of speech is Aotearoa?
Aotearoa is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Aotearoa?
Aotearoa is pronounced /aʊ.tɪəˈrɐʉ.a/ (New Zealand).

Words near Aotearoa in the dictionary

  1. Aostan
  2. Aostans
  3. AOT
  4. AOTC
  5. Aotea
  6. Aotearoa
  7. Aotearoa New Zealand
  8. Aotearoa-New Zealand
  9. Aotearoa/New Zealand
  10. Aotearoan
  11. Aotearoans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Aotearoa (page history and authors); Aotearoa (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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