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Rotorua

Rotorua proper noun: a city, the capital of Rotorua Lakes district, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua.

Proper noun

Rotorua

  1. A city, the capital of Rotorua Lakes district, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua.
    • New Zealanders call Rotorua Roto Vegas but that's pushing it a bit - Roto Blackpool maybe.2002 May 27, Lynn Barber, “Just the spot... for jumping off a cliff”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2014
    • Not everyone in Rotorua is happy with the name Rotovegas (sometimes Roto-Vegas).2009 August 17, Peter Calder, “Fat Dog Cafe, Rotorua”, in NZ Herald, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025
  2. A lake in Rotorua district, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand; in full, Lake Rotorua.
  3. A district of the Bay of Plenty region, New Zealand; in full, Rotorua Lakes. Seat: Rotorua.
  4. A lake in Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand; in full, Lake Rotorua.

Forms of Rotorua

alternative formRoturua

Origin of Rotorua

From Māori Rotorua.

Words formed from Rotorua

Questions about Rotorua

What does Rotorua mean?
Rotorua means a city, the capital of Rotorua Lakes district, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua.
What part of speech is Rotorua?
Rotorua is a proper noun.

Words near Rotorua in the dictionary

  1. rotoreflections
  2. rotorless
  3. rotors
  4. rotorstator
  5. rotorstators
  6. Rotorua
  7. Rotorua Lakes
  8. Rotoruan
  9. rotos
  10. rotoscoliosis
  11. rotoscope

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