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lūʻau

lūʻau is the alternative form of luau.

Meaning of luau

Noun

luau (plural luaus or luau)

  1. An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.
    • Other Americans and Europeans also made their way into court, drawn by its brilliant pageants and lavish lū‘au, or feasts.2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, published 2012, page 13

Forms of lūʻau

plurallūʻaus
plurallūʻau

Origin of lūʻau

Unadapted borrowing from Hawaiian lūʻau.

Questions about lūʻau

What is lūʻau the alternative form of?
Lūʻau is the alternative form of luau.

Words near lūʻau in the dictionary

  1. Lębork
  2. Lōmāfānu
  3. Lœffler
  4. Lœfflers
  5. Lœuilly
  6. lūʻau
  7. lūʻaus
  8. lək̓ʷəŋən
  9. Lα
  10. LαB
  11. LαBs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lūʻau (page history and authors); luau (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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