New Britain

American  

noun

1. the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, in the W central Pacific Ocean. About 14,600 sq. mi. (37,814 sq. km). Rabaul.

2. a city in central Connecticut.

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New Britain British  

noun

1. an island in the S Pacific, northeast of New Guinea: the largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea; mountainous, with several active volcanoes. Capital: Rabaul. Pop: 161 737 (2000). Area: 36 519 sq km (14 100 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

It turned out that some of the stiffest competition faced by the New Britain plant came from within Stanley itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

The bees represent the companies that helped build New Britain into a robust manufacturing town, and the busiest of all was Stanley Black & Decker.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Stanley didn’t equip the New Britain plant with the machinery needed to do double-sided printing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

It does that at a factory in Thailand, and the company said it wasn’t fiscally prudent to make the same kind of investment in New Britain.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Laboratory tests revealed that the obsidian they used was brought from deposits on New Britain, an island 250 miles away.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari