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Melanesians

Melanesians is the plural of Melanesian.

Meaning of Melanesian

Noun

Melanesian (plural Melanesians)

  1. 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

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Questions about Melanesians

What is Melanesians the plural of?
Melanesians is the plural of Melanesian.

Words near Melanesians in the dictionary

  1. Melanesia
  2. Melanesian
  3. Melanesian Pidgin English
  4. Melanesianist
  5. Melanesianists
  6. Melanesians
  7. Melanesid
  8. Melanesids
  9. melanettin
  10. melange
  11. melanger

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