COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Commonwealth of Australia mean? 

• COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (noun)
  The noun COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Commonwealth of Australia"):

Norfolk Island (an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony)

Northern Territory (a territory in north central Australia)

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)

Carpentaria; Gulf of Carpentaria (a wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia)

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)

Western Australia (a state containing the western third of Australia)

Namoi; Namoi River (a river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River)

Murrumbidgee; Murrumbidgee River (a river of southeastern Australia; flows westward into the Murray River)

Murray; Murray River (a southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide)

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)

Meronyms (members of "Commonwealth of Australia"):

Aussie; Australian (a native or inhabitant of Australia)

Domain member region:

perisher (bounder)

returning officer (the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results)

sealed (having been paved)

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)

walkabout (nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine)

mate (informal term for a friend of the same sex)

pom; pommy (a disparaging term for a British person)

billabong (a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently)

plonk (a cheap wine of inferior quality)

Aboriginal Australian; Australian (the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines)

tucker-bag (a bag used for carrying food)

swag (a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman)

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)

boomerang; throw stick; throwing stick (a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower)

Holonyms ("Commonwealth of Australia" is a part of...):

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)

Holonyms ("Commonwealth of Australia" is a member of...):

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)