BOUGAINVILLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bougainville mean? 

• BOUGAINVILLE (noun)
  The noun BOUGAINVILLE has 2 senses:

1. French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811)

2. the largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea

  Familiarity information: BOUGAINVILLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOUGAINVILLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bougainville; Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Instance hypernyms:

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The largest of the Solomon Islands; a province 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 ("Bougainville" 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)

Solomon Islands (the southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth)