PORT MORESBY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Port Moresby mean? 

• PORT MORESBY (noun)
  The noun PORT MORESBY has 1 sense:

1. the administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea

  Familiarity information: PORT MORESBY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORT MORESBY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Papua New Guinea; Port Moresby

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)