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Tai

noun

A native or inhabitant of Thailand. Synonyms: Siamese, Thai.

The most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages.

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people. Synonyms: Siamese, Thai. "Different Thai tribes live in the north"

Of or relating to the languages of the Thai people. Synonyms: Siamese, Thai.

Of or relating to Thailand. Synonyms: Siamese, Thai.

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"Tai" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ku Tai-tai would say. She declared she knew no more, and did not know where the woman lived. Her name ...

— The Little Girl Lost - A Tale for Little Girls • Eleanor Raper

... word as taipo, meaning devil, exists. It would mean evening-tide—tai-po. Probably the early sailors introduced attached meaning of devil from the Maori saying, 'Are you not afraid to travel at night?' referring to ...

— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... free from fat, swift in action, graceful in repose; and the women, though fatter and duller, are still comely animals. To judge by the eye, there is no race more viable; and yet death reaps them with both hands. When Bishop Dordillon first came to Tai-o-hae, he reckoned the inhabitants at many thousands; he was but newly dead, and in the same bay Stanislao Moanatini counted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers ...

— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson

... button; the other, his inferior in rank, with the white—gravely awaited the moment of departure to escort the travellers as far as Kalgan, and to take care that, upon requisition being made, they were provided with everything necessary to their comfort. Numerous Tching-tai, the official messengers of the legations, and other indigenous domestics, crowded the court, gravely mounted upon foundered broken-down hacks, their knees raised up to their elbows, and their hands clutching at the mane of their Rosinante, like apes astride of dogs in ...

— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams

... Is and nad bi mui na tai. Muisse is in old Irish the possessive of the first sing when followed by a noun it becomes mo, when not so followed it is mui; tai is also found for do. O'Curry gave this line as "there is no sorrow ...

— Heroic Romances of Ireland Volumes 1 and 2 Combined • A. H. Leahy

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