Tahitian

American  

[tuh-hee-shuhn, -tee-uhn, tah-] / təˈhi ʃən, -ti ən, tɑ- /

adjective

1. of or relating to Tahiti, its inhabitants, or their language.

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Tahiti.

2. the Polynesian language of Tahiti.

Tahitian British  

/ təˈhiːtɪən, təˈhiːʃɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Tahiti or its inhabitants

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Tahiti

Etymology

Origin of Tahitian

First recorded in 1815–25; Tahiti + -an

Example Sentences

"They poisoned us," Hinamoeura Cross, a 37-year-old Tahitian parliamentarian who was aged seven when France detonated its last nuclear explosion near her home in French Polynesia in 1996.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Five months after her 100th birthday, the Palisades fire tore through Tahitian Terrace, destroying her double-wide trailer and 156 other homes in the park.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2025

Carved into the hillside above Pacific Coast Highway, Tahitian Terrace had opened in 1962 amid a post-World War II boom in mobile home parks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2025

Lee Calvert, pictured in an undated photo in her home in Tahitian Terrace in Pacific Palisades.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2025

Within the Palace was assembled all that was ultra-fashionable in Tahitian society.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von