Associations to the word «Tonga»

Wiktionary

TONGA, proper noun. A country in Oceania. Official name: Kingdom of Tonga.
TONGA, noun. (India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
TONGA, noun. (medicine) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

Dictionary definition

TONGA, noun. A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970.
TONGA, noun. The language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats