Term Gallery logo

Meanings of Pelew in English

A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.

Synonyms
Examples for "Palau"
Examples for "Palau"
1
Dengue cases in Palau dropped nearly 50 percent from June to July.
Radio NZ
2
He said a bullish China may have miscalculated how vulnerable Palau is.
Radio NZ
3
On, Wednesday Palau repatriated 11 medical referral patients coming in from Taiwan.
Radio NZ
4
The Marianas Variety reports this was confirmed by Palau President Johnson Toribiong.
Radio NZ
5
All seven people will be subject to mandatory 14-day quarantine in Palau.
Radio NZ
Usage of Pelew in English
1
With both Chaplin and Denison she would now converse freely in the Pelew Island dialect.
The Ebbing Of The Tide / South Sea Stories - 1896
2
Papua or New Guinea is my portion, and it happens to lie near the Pelew Isles.
The World of Waters, Or, A Peaceful Progress O'er the Unpathed S...
3
We left here the young Englishman, George Marsh, of whom I have before spoken, who was wrecked upon the Pelew Islands.
Two Years Before the Mast
4
She was a native of one of the Pelew Islands, a tall, slenderly-built girl, with pale, olive skin and big, soft eyes.
By Reef and Palm
5
In 1696 two canoes, with 29 Pelew Islanders, drifted to the coast of Sámar Island, and landed at the Town of Guivan.
The Philippine Islands / A Political, Geographical, Ethnographic...
6
'Let us finish these Pelew men, ere mischief come of it,' said Riedermann, the captain.
By Reef and Palm
Frequent collocations
Pelew through the time