Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Non-taboo; serving to replace a taboo name or term.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is taboo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, not-comparable
Qualifier: among the Maori
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: tapu
name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Initialism of Nintendo of America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Initialism of Nintendo of America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
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History
From the Polynesian term noa, e.g. Hawaiian noa (“free of taboo”).
Borrowed from Māori noa.
Borrowed from Spanish Noa, a surname mostly found in Cuba. The surname could also derive from German Noä.
