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honolulu
/ˌhoʊ.nəˈluː.luː/
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What does honolulu mean?
proper noun
- 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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IPA pronunciation
/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.
But you have deliberately chosen the part of the man from Honolulu, and you have played it with improvements of your own.
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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.
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.
"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?"