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Kiwani

Kiwani noun: a member of Kiwanis International, an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan.

Noun

Kiwani (plural Kiwanis)

  1. A member of Kiwanis International, an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan.
    • I copied them out of an American Automobile Association report because I'm on the spot for a talk at the Kiwanis Club luncheon next week, and I've found that whenever you've got to stand up on your hind legs and expose your ignorance the best thing you can do is put down a nice thick smoke screen...1941, Popular Science, volume 138, number 3, page 140

Forms of Kiwani

pluralKiwanis

Origin of Kiwani

From Ojibwe [Term?] (“we trade”).

Questions about Kiwani

What does Kiwani mean?
Kiwani means a member of Kiwanis International, an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan.
What part of speech is Kiwani?
Kiwani is a noun.
What is the plural of Kiwani?
The plural of Kiwani is Kiwanis.

Words near Kiwani in the dictionary

  1. Kiwai
  2. kiwaid
  3. kiwaids
  4. kiwaiform
  5. kiwakiwa
  6. Kiwani
  7. Kiwanian
  8. Kiwanians
  9. Kiwanis
  10. kiwano
  11. kiwanos

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