Melanesian

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Melanesian person.
    — Blackbirding was the euphemism given to the slave-trading that occurred in the Pacific from the mid-1800s through to the early-1900s. According to one study, blackbirding, [as] “the practice of luring Melanesians and Polynesians to toil for next to nothing was called”, involved upwards of 60,000 people between 1863 and 1904 (Horne, 2007, p. 2).
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to Melanesia. not-comparable
    — While Melanesian cannibals make "long pig," barbecuing enemies, legal and political cannibals in San Francisco put a beautiful wealthy woman, Penny Penny Hill, on trial for murder […]

词形变化

Melanesians plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English Melanesia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Melanesian
From Melanesia + -an.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English Melanesia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Melanesian
From Melanesia + -an.
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