Dictionary entry details
• AUSTRALIA (noun)
Meaning:
A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Australia"):
Namoi; Namoi River (a river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River)
Great Sandy Desert (a desert region in northwestern Australia north of the Gibson Desert)
Great Victoria Desert (a desert region in south central Australia north of the Nullarbor Plain)
Simpson Desert (a desert region of central Australia)
Australian Alps (a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range)
Cape York (the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland)
Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea)
Eyre; Lake Eyre (a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent)
Eyre Peninsula (a peninsula of southern Australia)
Great Australian Bight (a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms)
Great Barrier Reef (the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia)
Eastern Highlands; Great Dividing Range (a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia)
Carpentaria; Gulf of Carpentaria (a wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia)
Murray; Murray River (an southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide)
Murrumbidgee; Murrumbidgee River (a river of southeastern Australia; flows westward into the Murray River)
Gibson Desert (a desert area in western Australia)
Nullarbor Plain (a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight; has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited; the site of a major rocket research center)
Norfolk Island (an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony)
Western Australia (a state containing the western third of Australia)
Australian state (one of the states constituting Australia)
Queensland (a state in northeastern Australia)
New South Wales (an Australian state in southeastern Australia)
Victoria (a state in southeastern Australia)
Australian capital; Canberra; capital of Australia (the capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia)
Tasmania (an Australian state on the island of Tasmania)
South Australia (a state in south central Australia)
Northern Territory (a territory in north central Australia)
Meronyms (members of "Australia"):
Aussie; Australian (a native or inhabitant of Australia)
Domain member region:
returning officer (the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results)
sundowner (a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown)
swagger; swaggie; swagman (an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work)
Keith Rupert Murdoch; Murdoch; Rupert Murdoch (United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931))
Cercospora kopkei; yellow spot fungus (fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia))
gilgai soil (soil in the melon holes of Australia)
bonzer (remarkable or wonderful)
sealed (having been paved)
perisher (bounder)
mate (informal term for a friend of the same sex)
walkabout (nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine)
billabong (a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently)
plonk (a cheap wine of inferior quality)
Aboriginal Australian; Australian (the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines)
tucker-bag (a bag used for carrying food)
swag (a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman)
boomerang; throw stick; throwing stick (a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower)
pom; pommy (a disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand)
Holonyms ("Australia" is a part of...):
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
Holonyms ("Australia" is a member of...):
British Commonwealth; Commonwealth of Nations (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and its dependencies and many former British colonies that are now sovereign states but owe allegiance to the British Crown)
Meaning:
The smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Australia"):
Eyre Peninsula (a peninsula of southern Australia)
Great Australian Bight (a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms)
Great Barrier Reef (the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia)
Eastern Highlands; Great Dividing Range (a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia)
Moreton Bay (an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay east of Brisbane)
Murray; Murray River (an southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide)
Eyre; Lake Eyre (a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent)
Darling; Darling River (an Australian river; tributary of the Murray River)
Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea)
Cape York (the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland)
Australian Alps (a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range)
Australian Desert; Great Australian Desert (general name given to all desert areas in Australia)
Tasmania (an island off the southeastern coast of Australia)
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Murrumbidgee; Murrumbidgee River (a river of southeastern Australia; flows westward into the Murray River)
Instance hyponyms:
Carpentaria; Gulf of Carpentaria (a wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia)
Holonyms ("Australia" is a part of...):
eastern hemisphere; orient (the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia)
southern hemisphere (the hemisphere south of the equator)
