rangatira

British  

/ ˌrʌŋɡəˈtɪərə /

noun

1. a Māori chief of either sex

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Etymology

Origin of rangatira

Māori

Example Sentences

Then he is a boy of good family, a rangatira by birth, and it would never do to let the thing pass without making a noise about it.

From Project Gutenberg

The fighting men and petty chiefs, and every one indeed who could by any means claim the title of rangatira—which in the sense I now use it means gentleman—were all in some degree more or less possessed of this mysterious quality.

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It was a whare noa, a house to which, from its general and temporary uses, the tapu was not supposed to attach, I mean, of course, the ordinary personal tapu or tapu rangatira.

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The idea that I must cook for myself brought home to me the fact more forcibly than anything else how I had "fallen from my high estate"—cooking being the very last thing a rangatira can turn his hand to.

From Project Gutenberg

One old rangatira, before whom a considerable portion of the payment had been laid as his share of the spoil, gave it a slight shove with his foot, expressive of refusal, and said, "I will not accept any of the payment, I will have the pakeha."

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