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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Holonyms ("New Britain" is a part of...):
Bismarck Archipelago (a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea)