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honolulu

/ˌhoʊ.nəˈluː.luː/

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What does honolulu mean?

proper noun

  1. A port in Oahu Island; the capital and largest city of Hawaii, United States and the county seat of Honolulu County, Hawaii. Official name: City and County of Honolulu

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/ˌhoʊ.nəˈluː.luː/

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Kumagae, who for some years reigned supreme in Japan and Honolulu, has lived in America for the past three years.
William T. (William Tatem) TildenThe Art of Lawn TennisProject Gutenberg ebook #1451
But you have deliberately chosen the part of the man from Honolulu, and you have played it with improvements of your own.
Robert Louis StevensonFather Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of HonoluluProject Gutenberg ebook #281
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Through my port I could see the twinkling lights of Honolulu and the dark bulk of the mountain-range that stretched away right and left.
Mark TwainFollowing the Equator: A Journey Around the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #2895
At Honolulu their new proprietors awaited them, and I suppose identified and appropriated them, although to the European eye one face differed no whit from another.
E. V. (Edward Verrall) LucasRoving East and Roving WestProject Gutenberg ebook #7237
"I chose Samoa instead of Honolulu," he told Mr W. H. Trigg, who reports the talk in Cassells' Magazine, "for the simple and eminently satisfactory reason that it is less civilised. Can you not conceive that it is awful fun?"
Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) JappRobert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialProject Gutenberg ebook #590