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mauritius

UK/məˈɹɪʃəs/US/məˈɹɪʃəs/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Mauritius is an Indian Ocean island nation, once home of the dodo. Fly to Mauritius, the beaches of Mauritius, born in Mauritius.

The dodo lived nowhere else and was gone within a century of sailors arriving, which is why it stands for extinction. Mauritius had no people at all before the sixteenth century.

Definitions of mauritius

  1. 1nounmauritiusIndian Ocean island nation, once home of the dodo.B2

    “The sugar in that packet was grown in Mauritius.”

mauritius is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. Dutch

    Maurits

  2. Latin

    Mauritius — Morris

  3. English

    Mauritius

  4. English, today

    mauritius

Mauritius comes from Latin Mauritius (“Morris”), a Latinized form of the name Dutch Maurits. named after Maurits van Nassau.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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