Meanings
- An Austronesian language spoken in Kiribati.
Synonyms: Kiribati
- in pluralA person from the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati.
If each Gilbertese passes on land to his or her children, not very many generations will pass before the land plots become relatively fragmented. This was and is the case. Many land plots are small,[…]
1981, Roland W. Force, Brenda Bishop, Persistence and Exchange: Papers from a Symposium on Ecological Problems of the Traditional Societies of the Pacific Region : XIV Pacific Science Congress, Khabarovsk, U.S.S.R., August--September, 1979Synonyms: Kiribatian
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounAn Austronesian language spoken in Kiribati.
nounA person from the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati.
Origin
From Gilbert + -ese. See Gilbertese language § Name on Wikipedia.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans Kiribaties
- Kiribatieslanguage
Chinese Mandarin 基里巴斯语
- 基里巴斯语 (jīlǐbāsī yǔ)language
Danish kiribatisk, gilbertesisk
- kiribatisklanguage
- gilbertesisklanguage
Dutch Kiribatisch, Kiribati
- Kiribatischlanguage
- Kiribatilanguage
Finnish kiribati
- kiribatilanguage
French gilbertin
- gilbertinlanguage
Irish Gilbirtis
- Gilbirtislanguage
Norwegian Bokmål kiribatisk
- kiribatisklanguage
Portuguese gilbertês
- gilbertêslanguage
Russian кириба́ти, ги́лбертский
- кириба́ти (kiribáti)language
- ги́лбертский (gílbertskij)language
Spanish kiribatiano, gilbertés
- kiribatianolanguage
- gilbertéslanguage
Cite this entry
Gilbertese. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gilbertese
“Gilbertese.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gilbertese. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Gilbertese,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gilbertese.
Source: Gilbertese on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.