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Australia

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Noun

1. 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

2. australia

the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Australia

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noun
a large island country, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific: a former British colony, now an independent member of the Commonwealth, constitutional links with the United Kingdom formally abolished in 1986; consists chiefly of a low plateau, mostly arid in the west, with the basin of the Murray River and the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Barrier Reef off the NE coast. Language: English; Aboriginal languages also spoken. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: Australian dollar. Capital: Canberra. Pop: 24 446 341 (2017 est). Area: 7 682 300 sq km (2 966 150 sq miles)

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Australia

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1. 
island continent in the Southern Hemisphere between the S Pacific and Indian oceans
2. 
country comprising this continent and Tasmania: a member of the Commonwealth: 2,970,000 sq mi (7,682,000 sq km); pop. 16,800,000; cap. Canberra
: official name Commonwealth of Australia

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Australia

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1. The world's smallest continent, southeast of Asia between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
2. A commonwealth comprising the continent of Australia, the island state of Tasmania, and several island territories and dependencies. The continent was inhabited by Aboriginal peoples for at least 40,000 years before the first British settlement, a penal colony at Port Jackson (now part of Sydney), was established in 1788. The present-day states grew as separate colonies; six of them formed a federation in 1901. In 1911 Northern Territory joined the commonwealth and the Capital Territory, site of Canberra, was created. Canberra is the capital and Sydney is the largest city.

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