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fiji

UK/ˈfiːdʒiː/US/ˈfiːdʒiː/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,931 of 15,258mostly written

Fiji is a South Pacific island nation of three hundred isles. Fly to Fiji, born in Fiji, the coast of Fiji.

About a third of the islands are inhabited, and the country is famous out of all proportion to its size at rugby sevens, having won Olympic gold in it. The international date line was bent around Fiji so that the country would not be split between two days.

Tessa Mackenzie · Public domain

Definitions of fiji

  1. 1nounfijiA South Pacific island country.B1+

    “The capital of Fiji is Suva.”

fiji is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. to

    Fisi

  2. English

    Fiji

  3. English, today

    fiji

Fiji Borrowed from to Fisi. Borrowed from to Fisi (historically pronounced with a palatal affricate,), itself borrowed from fj Viti, from Proto‐Central Pacific *viti ‘east, sunrise’. The English spelling ‘Fiji’ was popularized by Captain James Cook’s phonetic transcription of the 18th‐century Tongan pronunciation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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