English

Proper noun

Melanesia

1. Part of Oceania, made up of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji.
   • 2004, Mary N. MacDonald, “Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia”, in Beyond primitivism: indigenous religious traditions and modernity, Routledge, ISBN 041527320X, page 315:

     My job, then, is that of a cultural and religious broker of sorts, co-opting Melanesia to serve as a stimulus to thought in Le Moyne classrooms.

Related terms

• Melanie
• Micronesia
• Polinesia

Translations

Latin

Proper noun

Melanesia f ‎(genitive Melanesiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Melanesia

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Spanish

Adjective

melanesia

1. feminine singular of melanesio