New Guinea
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: n(y)o͞o gĭnʹ-ē, IPA(key): /n(j)uː ˈɡɪn.i/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌnjuː ˈɡɪ.ni/
- (UK) [njuː ˈɡɪn.i]
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) [nu ˈɡɪn.i]
Proper noun
- A large Oceanian island in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
- (historical) The northern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to Papua.
- (informal) Papua New Guinea.
Holonyms
Derived terms
Translations
large island
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