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Lanai

//ləˈnaɪ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The sixth largest island of Hawaii, mostly privately owned.

    "While in Hawaii, he [Elon Musk] has resided at places owned by the billionaire Larry Ellison on the island of Lanai."

Noun
  1. 1
    A Hawaiian-style roofed patio. Florida, Hawaii

    "‘If they vomit in the lanai, that's for the butler to handle.’"

  2. 2
    a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Hawaiian lānai.

Etymology 2

From Hawaiian Lānaʻi, probably from lā (“day”) + naʻi (“conquest”), usually taken to reference an occasion when the wayward Mauian prince Kauluāʻau supposedly brought order to the island by expelling its ghosts and demons.

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