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Tiare

Tiare proper noun: a female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.

Proper noun

Tiare

  1. A female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.
    • Tiare — her father had called her by the name of the white, scented flower which, they tell you, if you have once smelt, will always draw you back to Tahiti in the end, however far you may have roamed — Tiare remembered Strickland very well.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

Origin of Tiare

From Tahitian Tiare, from tiare, a small white gardenia (Gardenia tahitiensis ), the national flower of Tahiti.

Questions about Tiare

What does Tiare mean?
Tiare means a female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.
What part of speech is Tiare?
Tiare is a proper noun.

Words near Tiare in the dictionary

  1. tiarae
  2. tiaraed
  3. tiaraless
  4. tiaralike
  5. tiaras
  6. Tiare
  7. tiarella
  8. tiarellas
  9. Tiaret
  10. tiars
  11. tiaræ

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