"Aotearoa" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Maori Aotearoa (“long white cloud; North Island; New Zealand”), see there for more.",
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          "ref": "1855, Sir George Grey, Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race: as furnished by their priests and chiefs:",
          "text": "he found in the sea this island Aotearoa (the northern island of New Zealand), and he thought he would land there.",
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        "The North Island of New Zealand."
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          "ref": "1981, Tim Finn, Split Enz (lyrics and music), “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”:",
          "text": "Aotearoa / rugged individual / glistens like a pearl at the bottom of the world [...].",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 877:",
          "text": "The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Kamaka Pili, “Ep. 37: Manulani Aluli Meyer - Hawaiian Epistemology” (4:35 from the start), in Aloha Authentic, via YouTube:",
          "text": "You were a professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and I know you went to Aotearoa to have some time there and gain some experiences.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 10:",
          "text": "There then arose a triangle of settlement across the vast Pacific, which had as its points Hawai‘i, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa.",
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          "ref": "2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-10-16, Asia Pacific:",
          "text": "New Zealand vaccinated at least 2.5% of its people on Saturday as the government tries to accelerate inoculations and live with COVID-19, preliminary health ministry data showed.\nThrough an array of strategies, gimmicks and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's encouragement through the day, 124,669 shots were administered by late in the day in a country of 4.9 million.\n\"We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going,\" Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service. \"Let's go for 150 [thousand]. Let's go big or go home.\"",
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  "word": "Aotearoa"
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          "ref": "1855, Sir George Grey, Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race: as furnished by their priests and chiefs:",
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          "ref": "1981, Tim Finn, Split Enz (lyrics and music), “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”:",
          "text": "Aotearoa / rugged individual / glistens like a pearl at the bottom of the world [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 877:",
          "text": "The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Kamaka Pili, “Ep. 37: Manulani Aluli Meyer - Hawaiian Epistemology” (4:35 from the start), in Aloha Authentic, via YouTube:",
          "text": "You were a professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and I know you went to Aotearoa to have some time there and gain some experiences.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 10:",
          "text": "There then arose a triangle of settlement across the vast Pacific, which had as its points Hawai‘i, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-10-16, Asia Pacific:",
          "text": "New Zealand vaccinated at least 2.5% of its people on Saturday as the government tries to accelerate inoculations and live with COVID-19, preliminary health ministry data showed.\nThrough an array of strategies, gimmicks and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's encouragement through the day, 124,669 shots were administered by late in the day in a country of 4.9 million.\n\"We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going,\" Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service. \"Let's go for 150 [thousand]. Let's go big or go home.\"",
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