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toas

toas is the plural of toa.

Meaning of toa

Noun (1)

toa (plural toas)

  1. A small painted artifact made by the Diyari people of Australia, believed to have been used as place markers or signposts.
    • These thirty-four toa constructions, made from urban debris and ceremoniously installed in a circular (or sometimes oval) bed of sand, bring together the multiple themes centred on reclamation that preoccupied his life.2000, Lin Onus, Urban dingo: the art and life of Lin Onus, 1948-1996, page 21

Noun (2)

toa (plural toas)

  1. (New Zealand) A brave warrior.
    • The toa or brave who distinguished himself was thought very highly of.1902, Journal of the Polynesian Society, volume 11, page 211

Noun (3)

toa (countable and uncountable, plural toas)

  1. A Polynesian tree of the genus Casuarina, or its wood.
    • It happens that nature has assembled in this spot, not only the wildest profusion of the vegetable kingdom, over which the lofty toa tree stands pre-eminent, but also objects of another description, overhanging rocks, hollow-sounding caverns, and steep precipices, calculated to give an aspect as...1817, William Mariner, An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific, page 302

Questions about toas

What is toas the plural of?
Toas is the plural of toa.

Words near toas in the dictionary

  1. Toals
  2. Toamasina
  3. Toano
  4. Toaq
  5. Toarcian
  6. toas
  7. toase
  8. toased
  9. toases
  10. toasing
  11. toast

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