Tiare

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proper noun

A female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.

OriginTahitian Tiare →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.

    Tiare — her father had called her by the name of the white, scented flower which, they tell you, if you have once smelt, will always draw you back to Tahiti in the end, however far you may have roamed — Tiare remembered Strickland very well.

    1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. TahitianTiare
  2. EnglishTiare

From Tahitian Tiare, from tiare, a small white gardenia (Gardenia tahitiensis ), the national flower of Tahiti.

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APA

Tiare. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tiare

MLA

“Tiare.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tiare. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tiare,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tiare.

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