Shared vs Wantok - What's the difference?
shared | wantok |
Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.
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(Melanesia, Papua New Guinea) A close comrade; a person with whom one has a strong social bond, usually based on shared language.
* 1989 , Vitor Abrantes, Innovative housing practices
* 1990 , Jeanette Conway, Ennio Mantovani, Marriage in Melanesia: a sociological perspective
* 2004 , Frederick Karl Errington, Deborah B Gewertz, Yali's question: sugar, culture, and history
As an adjective shared
is used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.As a verb shared
is (share).As a noun wantok is
(melanesia|papua new guinea) a close comrade; a person with whom one has a strong social bond, usually based on shared language.shared
English
Adjective
(-)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wantok
English
Noun
(en noun)- In Saraga, there are more wantoks (3.16) per household than in Bumbu (2.7).
- If one steals or cheats to help a wantok one feels not guilty or one might feel ethically obliged to fight to support a wantok without considering whether the wantok is right or wrong.
- But BAI wanted to do more than to avoid building a wantok -ridden town.