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Definition of New britain
1. Noun. The largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea.
Definition of New britain
1. Proper noun. An island of Papua New Guinea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of New Britain
Literary usage of New britain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1881)
"OBSERVATION ON new britain AND NEIGHBOURING ISLANDS, circumstance, which no doubt
upon consideration they would deem conclusive. Alexander the Great came ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"They have changed the names of tho islands from new britain and New Ireland ...
Dampier gives some slight account of new britain, but he only remained a few ..."
3. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1893)
"TOWN RESOLUTIONS OF 1774'—The following extract from the History of new britain,
Connecticut, by DM Camp, gives an account of an early movement in New ..."
4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1877)
"Notes of a Collection of Birds from new britain, New Ireland, and the Duke of
York Islands, with some remarks on the Zoology of the Group By E. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1898)
"Our knowledge of the botany of new britain is very incomplete, and consequently
the following enumeration will be found to contain the names of many plants ..."
6. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1869)
"New-Britain, it would seein from reading the early part of that sketch, was a
parish of the town of Farm- ington, and as such, ..."
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