单词 | aloha |
释义 | alohan.int. Originally and chiefly Hawaiian. A. n. An utterance of ‘aloha’ (see sense B.); an expression of welcome or farewell. Also: good wishes; love, affection. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > greeting or salutation > specific greeting or salutation > in South Pacific aloha1820 1820 C. Tapoolee Let. 28 July in Relig. Intelligencer (New-Haven, Conn.) (1821) 7 Apr. 729/1 I send you my aloha, and tell you I am Your friend, Charlotte Tapoolee, Queen of Atooi. 1825 W. Ellis Jrnl. Tour Hawaii v. 109 When they designed to leave us, they would..give us their parting aroha as we passed. 1898 M. H. Krout Hawaii xxv. 317 I was greeted with friendly smiles and gestures and the kindly ‘Aloha’. 1963 Times 31 Dec. 12/7 The new year is just a wonderful baby. You gotta give it plenty Aloha to help it along. 1974 J. Brennan Parker Ranch of Hawaii (1979) xii. 173 These are the two things that I need—your fullest cooperation and deepest aloha. 2001 Adrenalin No. 9. 39/3 Given the executive perch at Sevo's, I could jump over the line as soon as the man had waved a fond aloha to the age guard at Cypress. B. int. Used to express good wishes when greeting or parting from someone: hello, welcome; goodbye, farewell. Cf. aloha oe int. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of greeting > in South Pacific aloha1831 aloha oe1887 1831 H. Bingham Jrnl. 3 Dec. in Missionary Herald (Boston) (1832) Nov. 353/2 A woman..came up from towards the sea shore. I bade her aloha, which she returned. 1884 United Service May 470 Aloha!..is a hearty exclamation..so grateful is it to the senses that you soon find yourself saying Aloha! to everybody you meet in your walks in the wildest way. 1937 D. Teilhet & H. Teilhet Feather Cloak Murders i. 12 Jeffrey Preacher raised his glass. ‘Aloha! Better have one with us.’ 1972 J. Potter Going West 38 Half an hour out of Honolulu... Midnight local time and a temperature of seventy-four degrees. ‘Aloha,’ the airport tower announced in neon lights... Aloha meant welcome. 1989 C. H. Lankton & S. R. Lankton Tales of Enchantment ii. 34 Some say, ‘Good riddance’; others say, ‘Aloha’. It is up to you to decide which way you need to say goodbye and say goodbye the right way. 2000 Marie Claire July 305 [He] used to watch Magnum and dream of the moment he too would say ‘Aloha’ to Hawaii. Compounds C1. Chiefly U.S. General attributive. a. With the sense ‘of or relating to welcoming or bidding farewell’. ΚΠ 1889 H. C. Palmer et al. Athletic Sports Amer., Eng. & Austral. ii. 228 The King's band was there, and even now I can in fancy hear its beautiful strains in the ‘Aloha’ song. 1921 Bull. Pan-Pacific Union May 7 Aloha Committee. (To welcome the guests.) 1951 Amer. Speech 26 19 Aloha..is often heard in compounds such as aloha party or aloha shirt—for a bright sport garment now winning favor in continental United States. ‘Aloha Week’ is the annual gala season about the end of October. 2007 Copley News Service (Nexis) 15 Oct. [She] will be crying minutes later after singing the traditional farewell aloha song. b. With the sense ‘of or relating to Hawaii or Hawaiians’. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > states Pennsylvanian1698 Alaskan1807 Arkansan1850 Oklahoman1901 aloha1936 Washingtonian1961 1936 [see aloha shirt n. at Compounds 2]. 1968 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 18 Aug. c6 A new Hawaiian cookbook details a luau menu: Aloha cocktails (a flower floated on almost any drink). 2000 Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) (Nexis) 1 Nov. d1 Her granddaughter recently had an Aloha Party for her 10th birthday complete with hula outfits, flower leis and tiki torches in the back yard. C2. aloha shirt n. chiefly U.S. = Hawaiian shirt n. at Hawaiian adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other bloody shirta1586 ruffle shirt1749 ruffled shirt1754 dicky1781 overshirt1805 camise1812 mill tog1821 boiled shirt1853 Crimean shirt1853 Crimea shirt1857 shirtwaist1859 shirt1867 polo shirt1887 zephyr1887 Ghost Shirt1890 Henley1890 negligée shirt1895 turtle-neck1897 rugby shirt1902 bush shirt1909 tunic shirt1918 safari shirt1921 button-down1924 thousand-miler1929 aloha shirt1936 buba1937 zoot shirt1942 Hawaiian shirt1955 sweater-shirt1964 beach shirt1966 kimono shirt1968 dashiki1969 1936 Nevada State Jrnl. 24 June 7/1 (advt.) Also the new, colorful, sensational Hawaiian aloha shirts and swim suits for men and women. 1954 Ellery Queen's Myst. Mag. Oct. 9/2 David was dressed casually in a red aloha shirt. 1972 J. Potter Going West 48 Tourist housewives..wore Polynesian shifts in patterns matching their husbands' Aloha shirts. 1999 G. Kissick Winter in Volcano (2000) ix. 88 A blur of brown-haired girls in airy dresses and blond boys in sun-bleached aloha shirts. aloha spirit n. a warm and welcoming disposition, as considered characteristic of the people of Hawaii. ΚΠ 1915 A. Boyd in E. L. Gulick Aloha Kanaka 136 It was no hard matter for the Aloha spirit to manifest itself, and we felt the warmth and glow of it the very first night we came. 1960 Rotarian Nov. 44/2 Hawaii, with its surf-edged beaches, towering mountains, swaying palms, and Aloha spirit, is a favorite stop-over for travellers. 2012 Honolulu Star-Advertiser (Nexis) 3 Apr. Times are hard for many of us—some more than others—yet the aloha spirit is alive and well out there. Aloha State n. colloquial (a nickname for) the state of Hawaii. ΚΠ 1959 Washington Post 27 Feb. c2 (headline) Aloha State is next. 1972 J. Potter Going West 48 Open cars passed... The number plates proclaimed Hawaii the Aloha State. 1994 Chile Pepper Dec. 20/2 The closest we'd ever gotten to the Aloha State before was bad reruns of Hawaii Five-O. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.int.1820 |
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