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Definition of kainga in English: kainganoun kɑːˈɪŋə NZ A Maori village or settlement. Example sentencesExamples - The kainga encompass all blood relatives and can include people other than blood relations.
- He came down to the frightened passengers and told them to make use of any of the houses in his kainga and assured them they were among friends.
- They are not just stuck in their little kainga, wearing their piupiu.
- Even though Te Whiti died in 1907, his spirit of peace is still alive at the slowly reviving kainga - and way beyond.
- A kainga consists of relatives living in different households in the same village or in several villages.
- ‘It was quite clear that it was an extraordinary thing,’ he says of the Taranaki kainga led by pacifist prophets Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi.
Synonyms community, colony, outpost, encampment
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