ARAFURA SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arafura Sea mean? 

• ARAFURA SEA (noun)
  The noun ARAFURA SEA has 1 sense:

1. a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia

  Familiarity information: ARAFURA SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARAFURA SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Holonyms ("Arafura Sea" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

 Context examples 

Denotes a person from any of the islands in the region extending from the west Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and north-east of Australia. or of that ancestry.

(Melanesian, NCI Thesaurus)