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tianara

1. (loan) (noun) general (military) - commander of an army.

Kei te mārama hoki koe kei ngā tianara anake te mana whakahaere i ngā tikanga nunui e pā ana ki ngā rōpū i raro i a rātou (TKO 15/7/1916:5). / And you understand that only the generals have the authority in major strategic matters in the deployment of the troops under them.

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Tianara

1. (loan) (personal noun) General - title of an army commander.

I muri i te hinganga o Tianara Kori ka tonoa a Tianara Rāpata e te Kāwanatanga o Ingarangi kia haere hei kaiwhakahaere mō taua whawhai (TP 3/1900:5). / After the fall of General Colley, General Roberts was sent by the English Government as commander for that war.

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Rūtene Tianara

1. (loan) (personal noun) Lieutenant General.

Nō te 8 o Hūrae 1863, ka whakahaungia e Kāwana Hōri Kerei a Rūtene Tianara Duncan Cameron kia huakina a Waikato (TTR 1990:46). / On 8 July 1863 Governor George Grey ordered Lieutenant General Duncan Cameron to begin an invasion of Waikato.

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Kāwana-Tianara

1. (loan) (noun) Governor-General.

Tērā tētahi heitiki kei te wahine a te Kāwana-Tianara. Ko taua heitiki he mea hoatu ki tana pāpā i te wā e tū ana a ia hei Kāwana mō Niu Tīreni (TTT 1/6/1925:242). / The Governor-General's wife has a greenstone pendant, which was given to her father at the time he was Governor for Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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meiha-tianara

1. (loan) (noun) major general.

Kua whakanuia a Tianara Pirīti e te Kāwanatanga o Ingarangi, arā kua meinga hei meiha-tianara (TP 2/1900:6). / General French has been promoted by the British government, that is, he has been made a major general.

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Kāwana Tianara o Aotearoa, Te

1. (loan) Governor General of New Zealand.

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