New Zealand
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- proper noun
- I went hiking in the breathtaking landscapes of New Zealand last summer.
- live in New Zealand
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Australia and New Zealand
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- There are no native mammals to New Zealand other than marine mammals.
- They have chosen to make New Zealand their home and it is their home.
- We we flew around the the Wilds of of New Zealand and in one of the airplanes Peter has an airplane factory that makes of course airplanes.
- This is the United States, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
- So I came back to New Zealand and I did the selection and I passed.
- The third group which actually leads on nicely is to people who live far from the equator, so the UK, New Zealand, Canada and Scandinavia.
- Because I knew what it was like to be in Austin, TX, or to be in Ghana, or to be in Wuhan, China, or to be in New Zealand or whatever, right?
- But you know, it's strange to say some of our regulatory authorities in New Zealand demand proof of tissue pathology or tissue damage.
Examples
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He became the New Zealand High Commissioner to India.
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So what makes Milford Sound and all of New Zealand so magnificent is that it all starts with the air.
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So I came back to New Zealand and I did the selection and I passed.
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You were on your way to New Zealand!
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Well, when do you leave for New Zealand?
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I had the impression he left New Zealand for Europe when he was young, before he was twenty.
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They have chosen to make New Zealand their home and it is their home.
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'It is indeed a tragic day in New Zealand's history.
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This is Donald Crowhurst calling from New Zealand.
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His father, John McKenzie, arrived in New Zealand in 1879.
Surface Forms
Morphology
new + Zealand
The form is compositionally 'New' + a place-name, a common and transparent pattern (cf. New York, New Jersey) so a learner can infer this is a geographic name and likely a place. However, the specific sense 'an island country in the southwestern Pacific' and the referent 'Zealand' are not derivable from the constituents alone (and 'Zealand' is not a common lexical item), so the full meaning requires prior knowledge.
Etymology
New Zealand gets its name from Dutch sailors who called the islands 'Nieuw Zeeland' after a region in the Netherlands called Zeeland, and they used that name when they first mapped the land. English speakers later changed 'Nieuw Zeeland' to New Zealand, so the name stuck for the island country.