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GREAT DIVIDING RANGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Dividing Range mean?
• GREAT DIVIDING RANGE (noun)
The noun GREAT DIVIDING RANGE has 1 sense:
1. a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia
Familiarity information: GREAT DIVIDING RANGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Eastern Highlands; Great Dividing Range
Instance hypernyms:
chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)
Meronyms (parts of "Great Dividing Range"):
Australian Alps (a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range)
Holonyms ("Great Dividing Range" 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)
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
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