KINGDOM OF TONGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kingdom of Tonga mean? 

• KINGDOM OF TONGA (noun)
  The noun KINGDOM OF TONGA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: KINGDOM OF TONGA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINGDOM OF TONGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Friendly Islands; Kingdom of Tonga; Tonga

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (members of "Kingdom of Tonga"):

Tongan (a Polynesian native or inhabitant of Tonga)

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

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)

 Context examples 

In late December 2014, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga erupted, sending a violent stream of steam, ash and rock into the air.

(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)