NEW SOUTH WALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New South Wales mean? 

• NEW SOUTH WALES (noun)
  The noun NEW SOUTH WALES has 1 sense:

1. an Australian state in southeastern Australia

  Familiarity information: NEW SOUTH WALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW SOUTH WALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Australian state in southeastern Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Australian state (one of the several states constituting Australia)

Meronyms (parts of "New South Wales"):

Sydney (the largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port)

Wagga Wagga (a town on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales; agricultural trading center)

Holonyms ("New South Wales" 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 

No deaths or serious injuries were reported as of Monday morning, but the bushfires have caused extensive damage in rural areas of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).

(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Andréa Taschetto, from University of New South Wales’ Climate Change Research Centre, tells SciDev.Net, Previous studies have suggested that MJO rainfall and circulation will change under global warming.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

Fossils discovered by The University of New South Wales (UNSW) scientists in 3.48 billion-year-old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

(First Life Ever on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

At least 70 homes and a school were destroyed in the small coastal town of Tathra in New South Wales, authorities said, where people fled to the beach to avoid the flames and flying embers carried the fire front forward quickly.

(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)