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Honolulu

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌhɒn.əˈluː.luː//
  • United States//ˌhoʊ.nəˈluː.luː//

A port in Oahu Island; the capital and largest city of Hawaii, United States and the county seat of Honolulu County, Hawaii. Official name: City and County of Honolulu

proper noun

  1. 1

    A port in Oahu Island; the capital and largest city of Hawaii, United States and the county seat of Honolulu County, Hawaii. Official name: City and County of Honolulu

Etymology

Etymology tree Hawaiian Hono- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-duŋ Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duŋduŋ Proto-Oceanic *ruru Hawaiian lulu Hawaiian Honolulubor. English Honolulu From Hawaiian Honolulu, from hono (“bay, harbor”, cognate with Māori whanga) + lulu (“shelter”, cognate with Māori ruru). See also toponym Whangaruru in North Island, New Zealand.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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