commonwealth of australia

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 108849996)
    domain member region:
    • walkabout - nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine
    • boomerang, throw stick, throwing stick - a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower
    • lagerphone - an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground
    • swag - a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman
    • tucker-bag - a bag used for carrying food
    • aboriginal australian, australian - the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines
    • plonk - a cheap wine of inferior quality
    • billabong - a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently
    • pom, pommy - a disparaging term for a British person
    • mate - informal term for a friend of the same sex
    • perisher - bounder
    • 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
    is an instance of: country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation
    member holonym: aussie, australian - a native or inhabitant of Australia
    belongs to:
    • british commonwealth, commonwealth of nations - an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown
    • british empire - a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand
    has:
    • australian capital, canberra, capital of australia - the capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia
    • australian state - one of the several states constituting Australia
    • queensland - a state in northeastern Australia
    • new south wales - an Australian state in southeastern Australia
    • victoria - a state in southeastern Australia
    • 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
    • norfolk island - an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony
    • 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
    • gibson desert - a desert area in western Australia
    • great sandy desert - a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert
    • great victoria desert - a desert region in south central Australia to the 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 - a 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
    is a part of: australia - the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
    same as: australia

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