English

Performers at a commercial luau

Noun

luau ‎(plural luaus or luau)

1. An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.
   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press 2012, p. 13:

     Other Americans and Europeans also made their way into court, drawn by its brilliant pageants and lavish lū‘au, or feasts.

   • 2014, Mike Myers, The Guardian, 7 July 2014:

     No secrets for him because he's the king of Hawaii. And so he said, "Do you want to come to a luau with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Whoopi Goldberg?"

Translations

See also

• hula

References

• Pukui, Mary Kawena; Samuel H. Elbert (1986), Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, ISBN 0-8248-0703-0, p. 214

Portuguese

Noun

luau m (plural luaus)

1. luau (elaborate Hawaiian feast)

Romanian

Verb

luau

1. third-person plural form of lua

   ei luau‎

   they take