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Definition of Kingdom of Tonga
1. Noun. A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970.
Generic synonyms: Country, Land, State
Group relationships: Polynesia
Member holonyms: Tongan
Derivative terms: Tongan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kingdom Of Tonga
Literary usage of Kingdom of Tonga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forty Years on the Pacific: The Lure of the Great Ocean, a Book of Reference by Frank Coffee (1920)
"... QUAINT LITTLE KINGDOM—SHIRLEY BAKER—SOCIALISM IN PRACTICE THE little kingdom
of Tonga is the one remaining nominally independent kingdom of the Pacific. ..."
2. Compilation of Treaties in Force: Prepared Under Resolution of the Senate by United States, United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations (1904)
"... the King of Tonga; The Reverend Shirley Waldemar Baker, Premier of the Kingdom
of Tonga; Who, after producing to each other their respective powers, ..."
3. Compilation of Treaties in Force: Prepared Under Act of July 7, 1898 by United States (1899)
"... the King of Tonga; The Reverend Shirley Waldemar Baker, Premier of the Kingdom
of Tonga; Who, after producing to each other their respective powers, ..."
4. Brown Men and Women: Or, The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896 by Edward Reeves (1898)
"... at Fiji in the same year—the population of the kingdom of Tonga, besides a
few Europeans, was 19218, of which number 5791 were adult male taxpayers.1 It ..."
5. Fiji: Our New Province in the South Seas by James Herman De Ricci (1875)
"THE kingdom of Tonga is situated about 250 miles to the windward of Fiji, and is
composed of some sixty islands, forming the three groups of Tonga, ..."
6. The Persian Gulf and South Sea Isles by Edgar Collins Boehm (1904)
"This isle belongs to the kingdom of Tonga. The next evening a lieutenant from
the German gunboat, whom we had picked up at Samoa on his way home, ..."
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