AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Australian capital mean? 

• AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL (noun)
  The noun AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL has 1 sense:

1. the capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia

  Familiarity information: AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Australian capital; Canberra; capital of Australia

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Australian capital" is a part of...):

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)

 Context examples 

The system, which would operate through a telescope near the Australian capital, Canberra, is expected to be finished early next year.

(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)