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Kingitanga

Kingitanga proper noun: a movement among certain Māori tribes in the 1850s, aiming to establish a status similar to monarch so as to halt the alienation of Māori land.

Proper noun

Kingitanga

  1. (historical) A movement among certain Māori tribes in the 1850s, aiming to establish a status similar to monarch so as to halt the alienation of Māori land.

Origin of Kingitanga

Borrowed from Māori kīngitanga (“sovereignty”), from kīngi (“to reign”) + -tanga (abstract nominal suffix).

Questions about Kingitanga

What does Kingitanga mean?
Kingitanga means a movement among certain Māori tribes in the 1850s, aiming to establish a status similar to monarch so as to halt the alienation of Māori land.
What part of speech is Kingitanga?
Kingitanga is a proper noun.

Words near Kingitanga in the dictionary

  1. kingies
  2. kinging
  3. kingis
  4. kingish
  5. kingiside
  6. Kingitanga
  7. kingite
  8. kingites
  9. kingklip
  10. kingklips
  11. Kinglake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kingitanga (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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