new guinea

1. 1.

   a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea

   Broaderisland

   Part ofPacific

   PartsPapua New Guinea

Questions about new guinea

What does new guinea mean?

new guinea means "a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea".

Is new guinea a common word?

new guinea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.