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ratu

ratu noun: a Fijian chief or chiefly titleholder.

Noun

ratu (plural ratus)

  1. A Fijian chief or chiefly titleholder.
    • The ratu presided over the traditional ceremony.
    • For the purposes of this discussion, however, it is sufficient to know that all land is traditionally vested in the ratu, and there are no higher order structures of customary landownership.2006, Thomas Reuter, Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land, page 257

Forms of ratu

pluralratus

Origin of ratu

Borrowed from Fijian Ratu.

Questions about ratu

What does ratu mean?
Ratu means a Fijian chief or chiefly titleholder.
What part of speech is ratu?
Ratu is a noun.
What is the plural of ratu?
The plural of ratu is ratus.

Words near ratu in the dictionary

  1. rattraps
  2. Rattray
  3. Rattue
  4. Rattues
  5. ratty
  6. ratu
  7. ratus
  8. Ratuș
  9. ratwa
  10. ratwood
  11. Ratzburg

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