Melanesian
Melanesian adjective: of or relating to Melanesia.
Adjective
Melanesian (not comparable)
- Of or relating to Melanesia.
- While Melanesian cannibals make "long pig," barbecuing enemies, legal and political cannibals in San Francisco put a beautiful wealthy woman, Penny Penny Hill, on trial for murder […]2002, William C. Miller, Long Pig
Noun
Melanesian (plural Melanesians)
- A Melanesian person.
- Blackbirding was the euphemism given to the slave-trading that occurred in the Pacific from the mid-1800s through to the early-1900s. According to one study, blackbirding, [as] “the practice of luring Melanesians and Polynesians to toil for next to nothing was called”, involved upwards of 60,000...2008, Andrew David Grainger, The Browning of the All Blacks: Pacific Peoples, Rugby, and the Cultural Politics of Identity in New Zealand, page 326
Melanesian meaning in Tagalog
Melanesian in Tagalog
- referring to Melanesia
- Timpuluanin
- person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Timpuluanin
Forms of Melanesian
| plural | Melanesians |
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Origin of Melanesian
From Melanesia + -an.
Words formed from Melanesian
Phrases with Melanesian
Questions about Melanesian
- What does Melanesian mean?
- Melanesian means of or relating to Melanesia.
- What is Melanesian in Tagalog?
- Melanesian in Tagalog is Timpuluanin. See Melanesian meaning in Tagalog.
- What part of speech is Melanesian?
- Melanesian can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near Melanesian in the dictionary
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