Word.ws English Dictionary

Kilauea

Kilauea proper noun: an active volcano in Hawaii Island, (Big Island, Island of Hawaii) Hawaiian Islands, Pacific, Hawaii, United States.

Proper noun

Kilauea

  1. An active volcano in Hawaii Island, (Big Island, Island of Hawaii) Hawaiian Islands, Pacific, Hawaii, United States.
  2. A town near the eponymous volcano Hawaii, Hawaii, United States.

Origin of Kilauea

From Hawaiian Kīlauea, from kī (intensifying prefix) + lau (“many, much”) + ea (“to rise, go up, expand”).

Questions about Kilauea

What does Kilauea mean?
Kilauea means an active volcano in Hawaii Island, (Big Island, Island of Hawaii) Hawaiian Islands, Pacific, Hawaii, United States.
What part of speech is Kilauea?
Kilauea is a proper noun.

Words near Kilauea in the dictionary

  1. Kilagding
  2. kilah
  3. kilahs
  4. kilas
  5. kilat
  6. Kilauea
  7. kilawin
  8. Kilbane
  9. Kilbanes
  10. Kilbarchan
  11. Kilbarry

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kilauea (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: “Kilauea.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kilauea. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.