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tiki

/ˈtiːkiː/

tiki noun: a carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.

tiki: a carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean
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Noun

tiki (countable and uncountable, plural tikis)

  1. (countable) A carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.
  2. (attributive, often, uncountable) The characteristic style of tiki bars.
    • tiki culture
    • The Jungle Bird is a tiki cocktail.

Proper noun capitalized: Tiki

Tiki

  1. The first human, in Polynesian mythology.

tiki meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

tiki in Hindi

टिकी, तिकी

tiki in Marathi

टिकी, तिकी

tiki in Urdu

ٹیکی, ٹکی

tiki in Bengali

টিকি, তিকি
More languagesFewer languages
tiki in Telugu
టికి, టికీ
tiki in Malayalam
ടിക്കി
tiki in Kannada
ಟಿಕಿ
tiki in Punjabi
ਟਿਕੀ, ਟੀਕੀ
tiki in Gujarati
ટિકી, ટીકી, તિકી
tiki in Nepali
टिकी, तिकी

Examples of tiki in a sentence

  • A surprising number of tiki websites and thousands of other tiki-oriented pages are scattered over the internet.
  • “We brought tiki drinks.” “Oh.” “Tracy, turn loose that rum swizzle.” “Oh, Bill's back, and he's brought tiki drinks!
  • The history of crab rangoon leads back to tiki culture.

All 11 example sentences with tiki

Forms of tiki

pluraltikis

Plural of tiki: tikis

Origin of tiki

Borrowed from Māori tiki (“figurine”).

Words formed from tiki

Phrases with tiki

Words that rhyme with tiki

11 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about tiki

What does tiki mean?
Tiki means a carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.
What is tiki in Hindi?
Tiki in Hindi is टिकी, तिकी. See Tiki meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tiki?
Tiki can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tiki?
Tiki is pronounced /ˈtiːkiː/.
What is the plural of tiki?
The plural of tiki is tikis.

Words near tiki in the dictionary

  1. tikes
  2. Tikhon
  3. tikhonenkovite
  4. Tikhonov regularization
  5. Tikhonov regularizations
  6. tiki
  7. tiki bar
  8. tiki bars
  9. tiki culture
  10. tiki restaurant
  11. tiki restaurants

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tiki (page history and authors); Tiki (page history and authors); tiki (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tiki (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tiki (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tiki (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tiki (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tiki (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tiki (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tiki (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tiki (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tiki (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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