New Caledonia
An island in the South Pacific, east of Australia; population 227,400 (est. 2009); capital, Nouméa. Since 1946 the island has formed, with its dependencies, a French overseas territory; the French annexed the island in 1853. French name Nouvelle-Calédonie.
Origin
Named, by Captain Cook in 1774, after the Roman name Caledonia 'Scotland'.
- sertão
- serum
- serum hepatitis
- serum sickness
- serv.
- servagerous
- serval
- servant
- serve
- serve-and-volley
- serve-and-volleyer
- serve at table
- serve one's/its turn
- serve one's time
- serve out one's time
- server
- server farm
- servery
- serve someone right
- serve time
- serve two masters
- Servian
- Servian wall
- service
- serviceability