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# papua

«papua» in Mova's school dictionary: **the name of a large area in the western half of the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

proper noun (Papua) — a place name

### meaning for a pupil

1) Papua is the name of a large area in the western half of the island of New Guinea, now part of Indonesia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papua/#m1)

2) It is part of the name of the country Papua New Guinea, which is on the eastern half of the same island, north of Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papua/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons it appears in maps of the Pacific and in «Papua New Guinea», a country with more than 800 languages, rainforests, mountains and birds of paradise. It is a name, not an ordinary word. Phrases: Papua New Guinea, the island of New Guinea, Papua province.

### examples

- Papua New Guinea is just north of Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papua/#x1)
- More than 800 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papua/#x2)
- Birds of paradise live in the forests of Papua. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papua/#x3)
- We found Papua on the map of Indonesia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papua/#x4)
- Port Moresby is the capital of Papua New Guinea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papua/#x5)
- Our class read about the mountains of Papua. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papua/#x6)
- Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia in 1975. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papua/#x7)

### note

A place name, so always with a capital P. Say PAP-oo-uh. The people of Papua New Guinea are called Papua New Guineans. Do not mix up Papua (Indonesian part) with the separate country Papua New Guinea on the same island.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «papua» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/papua/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.