Meanings
nounPasifika (plural Pasifikas or Pasifika)
plural Pasifikas
- New ZealandA Pacific Islander.
My political stance as a Pasifika poet has always been one of inclusion – I'm a bridge not a wall.
2018, The Guardian, "Post-colonial talk back: seeing London in the South Seas", Selina Tusitala Marsh, 24 February 2018 (Selina Tusitala Marsh is a poet-scholar and New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2017–2019)
Synonyms & antonyms
Also see
Origin
From English Pacific, changed to use Samoan orthography.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
Pasifika. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pasifika
MLA
“Pasifika.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pasifika. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Pasifika,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pasifika.
Source: Pasifika on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.