Hilo

[ hee-loh ]

noun

a seaport on the east coast of the Island of Hawaii in southeastern Hawaii, and the island’s largest city.

Origin of Hilo

From Hawaiian Hilo, traditionally translated as “to twist”

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After a day spent hiking and watching the Kilauea eruption at Hawaii Volcanoes, soak those tired bones in a wood-fired hot tub and chill out on the enormous california king bed at this rustic bamboo cabin on the Hilo side of the Big Island.
The Best Hipcamp for Every National Park | Emily Pennington | May 19, 2021 | Outside Online
McClelland points to years of public anti-helicopter activism, like the 2018 hearings in Hilo, Hawaii, or the six hours of testimony over Zoom in Jackson Hole in April, as a positive sign that given a platform to speak, they will.
The FAA Is Enabling Helicopters to Ruin the Outdoors | Frederick Reimers | October 3, 2020 | Outside Online
Hilo may even return to national prominence, as it did in 2011, when its senior division won the little league world series.
There is No Stealing in Baseball! | Michael Daly | April 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Kilauea is more than two hundred miles southeast of Honolulu, and thirty miles inland from the port of Hilo.
Your National Parks | Enos A. Mills
The next day was darker, and the next after that, when a gale came down upon us that seemed likely to swamp Motu Hilo.
Summer Cruising in the South Seas | Charles Warren Stoddard

It might have been blown from Motu Hilo, and seemed ominous of something, I scarcely knew what.
Summer Cruising in the South Seas | Charles Warren Stoddard
We sailed along close to the shore, and by two o'clock were near the entrance to the Bay of Hilo.
A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' | Annie Allnut Brassey
I think at least half the population of Hilo had been on board the yacht in the course of the day, as a Christmas treat.
A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' | Annie Allnut Brassey

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