Dictionary entry details
• COMMONWEALTH OF 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 "Commonwealth of Australia"):
New South Wales (an Australian state in southeastern Australia)
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 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)
Namoi; Namoi River (a river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling 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)
Queensland (a state in northeastern Australia)
Australian capital; Canberra; capital of Australia (the capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia)
Victoria (a state in southeastern Australia)
Great Australian Bight (a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms)
Tasmania (an Australian state on the island of Tasmania)
South Australia (a state in south central Australia)
Western Australia (a state containing the western third of Australia)
Northern Territory (a territory in north central Australia)
Australian state (one of the states constituting Australia)
Meronyms (members of "Commonwealth of Australia"):
Aussie; Australian (a native or inhabitant of Australia)
Domain member region:
sealed (having been paved)
returning officer (the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results)
bonzer (remarkable or wonderful)
gilgai soil (soil in the melon holes of Australia)
Cercospora kopkei; yellow spot fungus (fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia))
sundowner (a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown)
Keith Rupert Murdoch; Murdoch; Rupert Murdoch (United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931))
swagger; swaggie; swagman (an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work)
perisher (bounder)
mate (informal term for a friend of the same sex)
pom; pommy (a disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand)
billabong (a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently)
plonk (a cheap wine of inferior quality)
walkabout (nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine)
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)
Holonyms ("Commonwealth of Australia" is a part of...):
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
Holonyms ("Commonwealth of 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)
