Associations to the word «Bougainville»

Dictionary definition

BOUGAINVILLE, noun. French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811).
BOUGAINVILLE, noun. The largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin