Tahiti

[ tuh-hee-tee, tah- ]

noun

1. the principal island of the Society Islands, in the southern Pacific. 402 sq. mi. (1,041 sq. km). : Papeete.

Tahiti

/ təˈhiːtɪ /

noun

1. an island in the S Pacific, in the Windward group of the Society Islands: the largest and most important island in French Polynesia; became a French protectorate in 1842 and a colony in 1880. Capital: Papeete. Pop: 169 674 (2002). Area: 1005 sq km (388 sq miles)

Tahiti

1. Largest island of French Polynesia , located in the south Pacific Ocean .

Notes

Attracted by the Polynesian culture and spectacular climate and scenery, both Paul Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson lived in Tahiti and expressed its romantic allure through their works.

Example Sentences

From the mid-1100s to the mid-1300s, people who had traveled to the Tuamotu Islands, located just east of Tahiti, spread out to settle Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, and several other islands separated by thousands of kilometers.

From Science News

Below, at a safe distance, local artists will tell the story of Hawaii and Tahiti through music and dance.

From Washington Post

Further out to sea, on islands like Tahiti, were only little lizards.

From Singularity Hub 

Set during the closing months of 1934, “Call of the Sea” is a demanding puzzle game that follows Norah, a former art teacher, as she travels by ship to an island located east of Tahiti.

From Washington Post

One minute the script, the next a story about Ivor Novello's tailor or the Tahiti steamer schedule in the Thirties.

From The Daily Beast

Mid-90s Gallic nuclear testing is blamed for mutating a native iguana species of Tahiti.

From The Daily Beast

There are nine varieties of pepper, vanilla beans from Tahiti and Madagascar.

From The Daily Beast

Some years ago the island of Tahiti was under the protection of the English, but at present it is under that of the French.

From Project Gutenberg

As peace was now declared in Tahiti, there was no obstacle to my making a journey through the whole island.

From Project Gutenberg

The most noted is that of Tahiti, which has been specially referred to the primeval tradition.

From Project Gutenberg

Welcomed here and ejected there, they passed on and on and on, as far as Samoa and Tahiti.

From Project Gutenberg

Now no one knows our whereabouts; we can choose our own route when we leave Tahiti.

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