PAPEETE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Papeete mean? 

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

1. the capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPEETE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Tahiti (an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin)

 Context examples 

And there were the low Paumotus, and the high Marquesas; he saw himself often, now, on board trading schooners or frail little cutters, slipping out at dawn through the reef at Papeete and beginning the long beat through the pearl-atolls to Nukahiva and the Bay of Taiohae, where Tamari, he knew, would kill a pig in honor of his coming, and where Tamari's flower-garlanded daughters would seize his hands and with song and laughter garland him with flowers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)