Crossword clues for honolulu
honolulu
- Nicole Kidman's birthplace
- Sunseeker's destination
- State capital that means "sheltered bay"
- Pacific island capital
- Lei locale
- Bette Midler's birthplace
- Aloha State capital
- US Pacific state capital
- U.S. capital
- The Big Pineapple [4]
- Southernmost major U.S. city
- Site of the first Ironman race (1978)
- Setting of the first revolving restaurant in the U.S
- Second-safest city in the US (Sunnyvale, CA is the first)
- Obama's birth city
- Nimitz Highway locale
- Longtime Pro Bowl city
- Iolani Palace place
- Hawaii's capital
- Frequent Pro Bowl site
- Chaminade University site
- AFC-NFC Pro Bowl city
- Iolani Palace site
- Transpacific Race terminus
- Literally, "sheltered bay"
- U.S.S. Arizona Memorial locale
- Capital whose name means "sheltered bay"
- Literally, "sheltered harbor"
- Southernmost U.S. capital
- The capital and largest city of Hawaii
- On the island of Oahu
- Site of Iolani Palace
- Fort Shafter site
- Capital of Hawaii
- Site of the Bishop Museum
- Hotel singer keeps working round island capital
- Port kept in house: hardly a great example
- Hawaiian capital
- Hawaiian port
- Pearl Harbor site
- Waikiki locale
- Obama's birthplace
- Waikiki site
- Pacific port
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chief city of Hawaii, from Hawaiian hono "port" + lulu "calm."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 158663
Land area (2000): 85.702479 sq. miles (221.968392 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 19.351313 sq. miles (50.119669 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 105.053792 sq. miles (272.088061 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17000
Located within: Hawaii (HI), FIPS 15
Location: 21.308950 N, 157.826182 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 96813 96814 96815 96816 96817 96818
Headwords:
Honolulu
Housing Units (2000): 315988
Land area (2000): 599.766341 sq. miles (1553.387626 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1527.082697 sq. miles (3955.125860 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2126.849038 sq. miles (5508.513486 sq. km)
Located within: Hawaii (HI), FIPS 15
Location: 21.426126 N, 158.035861 W
Headwords:
Honolulu, HI
Honolulu County
Honolulu County, HI
Wikipedia
Honolulu ( or ; ) is the state capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is the county seat of the City and County of Honolulu on the island of Oahu. Honolulu is the main gateway to Hawaii and a major portal into the United States. The city is also a major hub for international business, military defense, as well as famously being host to a diverse variety of east-west and Pacific culture, cuisine, and traditions.
Honolulu is the most remote city of its size in the world and is both the westernmost and the southernmost major U.S. city. For statistical purposes, the U.S. Census Bureau recognizes the approximate area commonly referred to as "City of Honolulu" (not to be confused with the "City and County") as a census county division (CCD). Honolulu is a major financial center of the islands and of the Pacific Ocean. The population of the city of Honolulu was 337,256 as of the 2010 census, while the Honolulu CCD was 390,738 and the population of the consolidated city and county was 953,207.
Honolulu means "sheltered harbor" or "calm port". The old name is said to be Kou, a district roughly encompassing the area from Nuuanu Avenue to Alakea Street and from Hotel Street to Queen Street which is the heart of the present downtown district. The city has been the capital of the Hawaiian Islands since 1845 and gained historical recognition following the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan near the city on December 7, 1941.
, Honolulu was ranked high on world livability rankings, and was also ranked as the 2nd safest city in the U.S. It is also the most populated Oceanian city outside Australasia and ranks second only to Auckland as the most populous city in Polynesia.
Honolulu is a city magazine covering Honolulu and the Hawaii region. It is a member of the City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA).
Honolulu is an American musical film that was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1939. The film stars dancer Eleanor Powell and Robert Young, and was directed by Edward Buzzell. Also appearing in the film are George Burns, Gracie Allen, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, and Rita Johnson.
Honolulu, also known as banks, kisses and combinations, and as indirect, is a pocket billiards game in which players must all shots in an indirect fashion to reach a set number of points. According to the Billiard Congress of America, the governing body for billiards in the United States, Honolulu presents players with "an unending kaleidoscope of strategic and shot-making challenges."
Honolulu is the capital and the most populous community of the State of Hawaii in the United States.
Honolulu may also refer to:
- Honolulu County (officially the City and County of Honolulu), encompasses the entire island of Oahu.
-
, the name of a number of steam ships.
- Honolulu (billiards), a pocket billiards game.
- Honolulu (1939 film), a 1939 musical film starring Eleanor Powell and Robert Young.
- Honolulu (magazine), an affluent lifestyle magazine, and the oldest magazine in Hawaii.
- Honolulu, lead single from In a Million Years by Australian indie rock band Last Dinosaurs.
- Honolulu, North Carolina
Usage examples of "honolulu".
If the tunnel ever went through, the Japs would have a shortcut between Honolulu and Kaneohe on the east coast of Oahu.
Mexican, part Spanish, part Jicarilla Apache, with a touch of real Hawaiian paniolo thrown in for good measure due to his mama having won a trip out to Honolulu on some teevee quiz show back in the sixties where she discovered Mai Tais and made friends with the locals, in no particular order.
Michael Santorini, the Honolulu psychologist being sought in the brutal slaying of his estranged wife.
The limousine moved swiftly, using the Lunalilo and Moanalua freeways and passing downtown Honolulu with its modern highrise buildings.
The steamer that took me to Molokai had on board two returning lepers, both young women, one of whom had come to Honolulu to settle up some property she owned, and the other had come to Honolulu to see her sick mother.
In January of this year, eleven of the lepers, on whom the disease, after having committed certain ravages, showed no further signs of activity, were brought back to Honolulu for re-examination.
Well, good luck to you, Pres. Write to me from Honolulu, and bon voyage.
I remember the rainbow-coloured harbour of Honolulu Hilo, the simply joyous Arcadie at the foot of Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea which lifted violet shoulders to the morning, the groves of cocoa-palms and tamarinds, the waterfalls dropping over sheer precipices a thousand feet into the ocean, the green embrasures where the mango, the guava, and the lovi lovi grow, and where the hibiscus lifts red hands to the light.
Once, she reported that a bag of her most expensive cameras had disappeared at the Honolulu airport, and then there had been the thefts from her car and shed in Kailua.
And then, as Honolulu International Airport and Pearl Harbor came into their line of sight on the right, they gradually descended, approaching Waikiki Beach, downtown Honolulu, the Aloha Tower.
United Airlines Boeing 747 that lost its cargo door and nine passengers south of Honolulu in 1989?
He was apprehended, tried and convicted of trespass, sentenced to pay a small fine, and again deported on the steamer with the warning that if he trespassed again, he would be fined one hundred dollars and be sent to prison in Honolulu.
The third mate told me in Honolulu that the 'Portyghee' had lain in his hammock for months, raising his family of abscesses and feeding like a cannibal.
That's enough to buy an air ticket to Honolulu and back to Hong Kong and have ten days of holiday together.
He and Chan had been friends since the bygone time when the Oriental art dealer operated a small shop in Honolulu.