hui

/ ˈhuːɪ /

noun

1. a conference, meeting, or other gathering
2. informal.
   a party

Word History and Origins

Origin of hui¹

Māori

Example Sentences

Ju Hui Judy Han, an assistant professor in gender studies at UCLA, told CNN that what undergirds 4B in South Korea is the question of "why and how could anyone imagine getting married and giving birth" in a deeply misogynist environment.

From Salon

North Korea turned up the rhetorical heat in a visit to Moscow on Friday by its foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, who met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

From Los Angeles Times

Wanting to capture these transient movements, Xiao Hui Tai, a statistician at the University of California, Davis, and her former colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley turned to anonymized cellphone data from Afghanistan that revealed people’s movements between their home districts and nearby regions.

From Salon

As “All Shall Be Well” unfolds, Yeung lets on that he has no use for broad villain strokes, with the performances of Tai Bo and Hui — pinched and distracted — helping establish the sad reality that grief mixed with need doesn’t always concede space for people to feel charitable.

From Los Angeles Times

“Many conditions — coughing and upper respiratory infections or GI problems — can be helped,” Hui says.

From Los Angeles Times