Tonga
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tonga is a noun meaning (India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Meaning
(India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
More Meanings
- (medicine) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
Example Sentences
When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga.
Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.
The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.
Word Forms
- tongas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tong, soup, tang, tabu, toga.
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