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TONGA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Tonga" is a kind of...):
Bantoid language; Bantu (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970
Synonyms:
Friendly Islands; Kingdom of Tonga; Tonga
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (members of "Tonga"):
Tongan (a Polynesian native or inhabitant of Tonga)
Holonyms ("Tonga" is a part of...):
Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)
Derivation:
Tongan (of or relating to the island monarchy of Tonga or its people)
