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TONGA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)play

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Tonga" is a kind of...):

Bantoid language; Bantu (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970play

Synonyms:

Friendly Islands; Kingdom of Tonga; Tonga

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (members of "Tonga"):

Tongan (a Polynesian native or inhabitant of Tonga)

Holonyms ("Tonga" is a part of...):

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)

Derivation:

Tongan (of or relating to the island monarchy of Tonga or its people)

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