GULF OF CARPENTARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gulf of Carpentaria mean? 

• GULF OF CARPENTARIA (noun)
  The noun GULF OF CARPENTARIA has 1 sense:

1. a wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia

  Familiarity information: GULF OF CARPENTARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GULF OF CARPENTARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Carpentaria; Gulf of Carpentaria

Instance hypernyms:

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

gulf (an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay)

Holonyms ("Gulf of Carpentaria" 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)