Lanikai

[ lah-nee-kahy ]

noun

1. a town adjoining Kailua, on SE Oahu, in Hawaii.

Example Sentences

The sale capped a big couple of weeks for Hawaii real estate sales, Perry said, noting that just four days before the Maui deal closed, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s estate on the Big Island sold for $43 million and a home in Oahu’s beachfront neighborhood of Lanikai sold for more than $24 million about a week earlier.

From Seattle Times

But Forster’s George Emerson becomes Kwan’s George Zao, and as his mother puts it: “We come from Hong Kong, where our flat overlooks the harbor. And we have a house in Sydney, in Watsons Bay, where we can see whales do back flips, and another beachfront house in Hawaii, in Lanikai. We get to see the ocean till we’re sick of it, so this is nothing to us.”

From New York Times

The Lanikai Outdoor Circle organization expressed concerned about similar buildings rising in single-family neighborhoods, describing the project as a “monster development in the heart of an historically low-rise neighborhood.”

From Washington Times

They were engaged nine months later along Lanikai Beach in Oahu, Hawaii.

From New York Times

The Kaiwa Ridge Trail, commonly known as the Lanikai Pillbox trail, reopened Monday following the June closure to renovate the military structures.

From Washington Times