Tonga
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- proper noun
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Tonga
- Almost 40 percent of all remittances sent to Tonga come from New Zealand.
- Tonga Islands
They recruit heavily in Tonga and Samoa.
- They recruit heavily in Tonga and Samoa.
- And these whales in Tonga, all the male whales are singing the same song.
- Pacific Islanders are people from, you know, sort of Vanuatu, Cook Islands, New Zealand, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji.
Examples
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Pacific Islanders are people from, you know, sort of Vanuatu, Cook Islands, New Zealand, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji.
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Welcome to today's World Cup qualifying match between Tonga and American Samoa.
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When I finally got to Tonga, it was business as usual.
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But as Woody told his stories, it never occurred to any of us to ask: Why survey Tonga?
Fiction book (2000) -
Almost 40 percent of all remittances sent to Tonga come from New Zealand.
Academic text (2018) -
MakkaFek: I grew up in Tonga, but came out to New Zealand when I was 17, which was 2009.
Blog text (20) -
The top countries these immigrants originally came from include: Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga.
Academic text (2018) -
For females, the highest age-standardized incidence was detected in Fiji (230.9 per 100,000) and for males in Tonga (151.4 per 100,000).
Academic text (2016) -
When I finally arrived in Tonga, the beautiful islands took my breath away.
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Welcome to today's World Cup qualifying match between Tonga and American Samoa.
Synonyms
An island country in the South Pacific with a king
An old name for the islands now called Tonga
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tonga the country gets its name from the Tongan word tonga, which means 'south' or 'southward' in Polynesian languages because the islands lie to the south in the Pacific. So the name points to the country's position on the map.