NEW BRITAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Britain mean? 

• NEW BRITAIN (noun)
  The noun NEW BRITAIN has 1 sense:

1. the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea

  Familiarity information: NEW BRITAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW BRITAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("New Britain" is a part of...):

Bismarck Archipelago (a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea)