Definition of New Caledonian

1. Adjective. Of or relating to New Caledonia.

Partainyms: New Caledonia
Derivative terms: New Caledonia

Definition of New Caledonian

1. Adjective. of, from, or pertaining to New Caledonia (either sense), its people or language. ¹

2. Noun. A person from New Caledonia (iether sense) or of New Caledonian descent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of New Caledonian

New-Agey
New-York
New Age
New Age music
New Age traveller
New Ager
New Agers
New Agey
New Amsterdam
New Bedford
New Britain
New Brunswick
New Brunswicker
New Brunswickers
New Caledonia
New Caledonian (current term)
New Caledonian yew
New Caledonians
New Dealer
New Delhi
New Democrat
New Democratic
New Democratic Party
New Democrats
New England
New England aster
New England boiled dinner
New England clam chowder
New Englander
New Englandy

Literary usage of New Caledonian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission: With Appendix by Ontario Royal Nickel Commission, George Thomas Holloway (1917)
"MILLER: You have had some experience in handling New Caledonian ores, ... Mixing Norwegian and New Caledonian Ores Q. Could you give us the cost per ton of ..."

2. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Charles George Warnford Lock, Robert Haldane (1889)
"For the New Caledonian ore, the most interesting of the methods employed is related to the metallurgy of iron : the initial operation is to make a pig of ..."

3. Opuscula: Essays, Chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"As far as the very scanty data go, they supply the closest resemblance to the Louisiade dialects, from the two New Caledonian vocabularies. ..."

4. Notes of Travel in Fiji and New Caledonia with Some Remarks on South Sea by John William Anderson (1880)
"And so the New Caledonian who has acquired a knowledge of the ways of white ... An easier life than the New Caledonian man leads is difficult to imagine. ..."

5. Principles of Metallurgy by Arthur Horseman Hiorns (1895)
"Treatment of New Caledonian Ores.—The ores were formerly smelted near the mines, so as to concentrate the material before exporting to Europe. ..."

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