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Tahiti

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Ta·hi·ti  (t-ht)
An island of the southern Pacific Ocean in the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It was first settled by Polynesians in the 14th century. Gaugin's best-known works were painted here.

Tahiti [təˈhiːtɪ]
n
(Placename) 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.: 115 820 (latest est.). Area: 1005 sq. km (388 sq. miles)
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.TahitiTahiti - an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin
Papeete - the capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti
Society Islands - an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa
Tahitian - a native or inhabitant of Tahiti
Translations
Tahiti [tɑːˈhiːtɪ] NTahití m

Tahiti [təˈhiːti] nTahiti

Tahiti
nTahiti nt

Tahiti [tɑːˈhiːtɪ] nTahiti f
Tahiti [tɑːˈhiːtɪ] nTahiti f

Tahiti تاهيتي Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti Ταϊτή Tahití Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti タヒチ 타히티 섬 Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti Taiti Таити Tahiti เกาะตาฮิติทางตอนใต้ของมหาสมุทรแปซิฟิก Tahiti Tahiti 塔希提


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Two days later, as the steamer Mariposa plied her customary route between Tahiti and San Francisco, the passengers ceased playing deck quoits, abandoned their card games in the smoker, their novels and deck chairs, and crowded the rail to stare at the small boat that skimmed to them across the sea before a light following breeze.
We made sail and tried to clew off, when the rotten work of the Tahiti shipwrights became manifest.
It is true I knew him more intimately than most: I met him first before ever he became a painter, and I saw him not infrequently during the difficult years he spent in Paris; but I do not suppose I should ever have set down my recollections if the hazards of the war had not taken me to Tahiti.
 
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