MAUI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Maui mean? 

• MAUI (noun)
  The noun MAUI has 1 sense:

1. the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands

  Familiarity information: MAUI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAUI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Maui; Maui Island

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Maui" is a part of...):

H.I.; Hawaiian Islands; Sandwich Islands (a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific)

 Context examples 

But her amazement passed all bounds when he told her he had been on Maui, the particular island whereon she had attained womanhood and married.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Asteroid 2015 TB145 was discovered on Oct. 10, 2015, by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS-1 (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) on Haleakala, Maui.

(Halloween Asteroid a Treat for Radar Astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope, on the summit of Haleakala, Maui, in Hawai‘i, will enable a new era of solar science and a leap forward in understanding the sun and its impacts on our planet.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

Asteroid 2014 RC was initially discovered on the night of August 31 by the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona, and independently detected the next night by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, located on the summit of Haleakal on Maui, Hawaii.

(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)