INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Independent State of Papua New Guinea mean? 

• INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA (noun)
  The noun INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Independent State of Papua New Guinea"):

Bismarck Archipelago (a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea)

Bougainville (the largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea)

Papua (the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea)

capital of Papua New Guinea; Port Moresby (the administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea)

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

New Guinea (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)

Holonyms ("Independent State of Papua New Guinea" is a member of...):

British Commonwealth; Commonwealth of Nations (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown)