OCEANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oceania mean? 

• OCEANIA (noun)
  The noun OCEANIA has 1 sense:

1. a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)

  Familiarity information: OCEANIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCEANIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Oceania; Oceanica

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Oceania"):

Melanesia (the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania)

Micronesia (the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania)

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)

Holonyms ("Oceania" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

In contrast, several different sets of DNA segments inherited from Denisovans were identified in people from Oceania and East Asia, suggesting at least two distinct mixing events.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

Continental warmth: South America had its second warmest year on record; Asia, its third; Africa, its fourth; Europe, its fifth; and North America and Oceania, their sixth.

(2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe, NOAA)