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kahunas

kahunas is the plural of kahuna.

Meaning of kahuna

Noun

kahuna (plural kahunas or kahuna)

  1. (Hawaii) A priest or priestess of the traditional Hawaiian religion.
    • They were kāhuna, practitioners of the old Hawaiian religion, apparently offering themselves as sacrifices to appease the gods so that the queen would be restored.2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 230
  2. A great surfer.

Phrases with kahunas

Questions about kahunas

What is kahunas the plural of?
Kahunas is the plural of kahuna.

Words near kahunas in the dictionary

  1. Kahramanmaraş
  2. Kahrs
  3. kahu
  4. Kahului
  5. kahuna
  6. kahunas
  7. Kahutara
  8. kahweol
  9. kai
  10. kai kai
  11. Kai Ken

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kahunas (page history and authors); kahuna (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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