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Pelew

Pelew is the obsolete form of Palau.

Meaning of Palau

Proper noun

Palau

  1. A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Palau. Capital: Ngerulmud.
    • Another society in which wealth per se was highly valued was Palau, but wealth belonging to descent units and not to individuals.[…]
    • Palau society was divided into a large number of individually named, exogamous matriclans, and these were in turn subdivided into named matrilineages, each of which was a land-owning corporation and localized within a single community.1989, Douglas L. Oliver, “Social Relations”, in Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146

Questions about Pelew

What is Pelew the obsolete form of?
Pelew is the obsolete form of Palau.

Words near Pelew in the dictionary

  1. Pelethite
  2. Pelethites
  3. peleton
  4. peletons
  5. Peleus
  6. Pelew
  7. Pelewan
  8. Pelewans
  9. Peleș
  10. pelf
  11. pelfe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pelew (page history and authors); Palau (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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