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PORT MORESBY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea
Synonyms:
capital of Papua New Guinea; Port Moresby
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("Port Moresby" is a part of...):
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)