单词 | hui |
释义 | huin. In New Zealand, a large social or ceremonial gathering; in Hawaii, a formal club or association. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > large or public event > [noun] fête1422 feast1485 triumphc1503 triumphal1605 vitulation1607 tamasha1623 set-out1818 hui1858 society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of morn-speechOE court1154 morrow-speech1183 conventicle1382 congregation1389 plenary session1483 journeyc1500 night school1529 assession1560 general meeting1565 family meeting1638 panegyris1647 desk1691 collegea1703 annual general meeting1725 mass meeting1733 panegyre1757 plenum1772 family council1797 coterie1805 Round Table1830 GA1844 indignation meeting1848 protest meeting1852 hui1858 primary1859 Quaker meeting1861 mothers' meeting1865 sit-down1868 town hall1912 jamboree1919 protest rally1921 con1940 face-to-face1960 morning prayers1961 struggle meeting1966 be-in1967 love-in1967 plenary1969 catch-up1972 rencontre1975 schmoozefest1976 society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club society1603 club1670 collegea1703 coterie1764 hui1898 1858 J. Morgan Let. 21 June in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 408 The hui at Rangiaohia to promote the Maori King movement broke up. 1898 M. H. Krout Hawaii 18 Those present, with forty members of a royalist society called Hui Kalaiaina, marched to the palace. 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira x. 81 The large huis—gatherings—of the Heretaunga people. 1948 R. S. Kuykendall & A. G. Day Hawaii xxv. 274 The enterprise of oriental business men was strengthened by the local practice of forming a hui, the Hawaiian name for an informal syndicate which enables Chinese or Japanese members to take great advantage of a business opportunity. 1954 J. Sheridan in Ellery Queen's Mystery Mag. Oct. 15/2 Our fishing hui's beginning to pay. 1959 M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 20 I mean it's common knowledge about what happens at the pa when there's a big hui. There's always too much liquor there, and the boys and girls mix freely. 1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl iii. vii. 220 We'll have fowls. Go to all the huis. 1973 Parade (Austral.) Sept. 11/1 The Maori custom of steeping the grain in water until it was half-rotten, and then serving it up as a special dish at a tribal hui. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1858 |
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