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NEW GUINEA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "New Guinea"):

Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea (a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations)

Meronyms (members of "New Guinea"):

Papuan (a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or New Guinea)

Holonyms ("New Guinea" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

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