New Georgia

American  

noun

1. a group of islands in the Solomon Islands.

2. the chief island of this group. 50 miles (80 km) long; 20 miles (32 km) wide.

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New Georgia British  

noun

1. a group of islands in the SW Pacific, in the Solomon Islands

2. the largest island in this group. Area: about 1300 sq km (500 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Ranada Robinson, research director at New Georgia Project, praised volunteers such as Jennings and said he demonstrates why she pushed the group not to use the label of “low-propensity voter.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024

“We have jokes about that both internally and externally,” Keron Blair, the chief field officer for New Georgia Project Action Fund, a top organizing group in the state, told me.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2022

“She’s always 100 percent poised and perfect all the time,” said Paul Glaze, an official with the New Georgia Project, the organization Ms. Abrams began to register the state’s voters of color.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

The New Georgia Project instead calls them “high opportunity voters.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2022

The kernels when dried and stuck on a reed are used by the Polynesian Islanders as a substitute for candles, and as an article of food in New Georgia.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis