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    TONGA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)play

    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 1970play

    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)

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