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HULA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hula mean?
• HULA (noun)
The noun HULA has 1 sense:
1. a Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman
Familiarity information: HULA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
Hawaiian dancing; hula; hula-hula
Hypernyms ("hula" is a kind of...):
rain dance (a ritual dance intended to bring rain)
Context examples
The hulk of an ancient wreck burned with blue fires, in the light of which danced the hula dancers to the barbaric love- calls of the singers, who chanted to tinkling ukuleles and rumbling tom- toms.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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