Definitions for Marquesan

Marquesan Mar·que·san

Spelling: [mahr-key-zuh n, -suh n]
IPA: /mɑrˈkeɪ zən, -sən/

Marquesan is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 376 anagrams from letters in Marquesan (aaemnqrsu).

Definitions for Marquesan

noun

  1. a Polynesian native of the Marquesas Islands.
  2. the Polynesian language of the Marquesas Islands.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Marquesas Islands, the Marquesans, or their language.

Origin of Marquesan

First recorded in 1790-1800; Marques(as Islands) + -an

Examples for Marquesan

This reserve and dignity is the finest trait of the Marquesan.

In a company of Marquesan natives the weather affords no topic of conversation.

This proneness to suicide, and loose seat in life, is not peculiar to the Marquesan.

Well, a Marquesan goat drive is just about like one of those—and then some.

It is to the mature Marquesan what a watch is to the European schoolboy.

The Marquesan beholds with dismay the approaching extinction of his race.

What would God do in cases where sharks had eaten a Marquesan?

But the art of printing the tappa is unknown upon the Marquesan Islands.

Death alone could not satisfy Marquesan vengeance: the flesh must be eaten.

The thought of death, I have said, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan.

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