hui

Definition

A Māori social gathering or assembly.

Etymology

Borrowed from Māori hui.

Example Sentences

• "[…] accounts of the proceedings of important huis at which Maori leaders took the initiative in discussing their educational and vocational needs […]."
• "“I even started training as a seminarian. It lasted till I met Hana at an interchurch hui.”"
• "[T]ribal leaders […] organised a series of hui in 1950 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the arrival of the Great Fleet, which by this time had grown to nine canoes."