Samoan
[suh-moh-uh n]
- pertaining to Samoa or its Polynesian people.
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Origin of Samoan
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Contemporary Examples
He took a Samoan lawyer with him, Oscar Zeta Acosta, and he took him because he thought he would be responsible.
“An eight-grade girl told 12-year-old Willow that her Samoan brothers were going to gang-rape her,” said Bristol.
Historical Examples
This is also the case in Queensland, Tasmania and the Samoan islands.
The Sexual QuestionAugust Forel
He would arrange them on the floor, talking earnestly to himself in Samoan.
To all my inquiries he answered in purest high-chief Samoan that he was my son.
Samoan children are taught that it is "unsamoan" to tell the truth.
FolkwaysWilliam Graham Sumner
Medicine for tona—boils with which Samoan children are often afflicted.
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis StevensonNellie van De Grift Sanchez
Samoan
- of or relating to Samoa, its people, or their language
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- a member of the people that inhabit Samoa
- the language of Samoa, belonging to the Polynesian family of languages
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