Word.ws English Dictionary

Hine-nui-te-po

Hine-nui-te-po proper noun: a goddess of night and death who rules the underworld in Māori mythology.

Proper noun

Hine-nui-te-po

  1. A goddess of night and death who rules the underworld in Māori mythology.

Origin of Hine-nui-te-po

Borrowed from Māori Hine-nui-te-pō (literally “great woman of night”).

Questions about Hine-nui-te-po

What does Hine-nui-te-po mean?
Hine-nui-te-po means a goddess of night and death who rules the underworld in Māori mythology.
What part of speech is Hine-nui-te-po?
Hine-nui-te-po is a proper noun.

Words near Hine-nui-te-po in the dictionary

  1. hindwaters
  2. hindwing
  3. hindwings
  4. Hindōstāni
  5. Hine
  6. Hine-nui-te-po
  7. Hineline
  8. Hinelines
  9. Hineman
  10. Hinemans
  11. Hiner

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hine-nui-te-po (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Hine-nui-te-po.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hine-nui-te-po. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.