Australia

[ aw-streyl-yuh ]

noun

1. a continent southeast of Asia, between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. 2,948,366 square miles (7,636,270 square kilometers).
2. Commonwealth of Australia, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of the federated states and territories of Australia and Tasmania. 2,974,581 square miles (7,704,165 square kilometers). : Canberra.

Australia

/ ɒˈstreɪlɪə /

noun

1. a country and the smallest continent, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific: a former British colony, now an independent member of the Commonwealth, constitutional links with Britain formally abolished in 1986; consists chiefly of a low plateau, mostly arid in the west, with the basin of the Murray River and the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Barrier Reef off the NE coast. Official language: English. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: dollar. Capital: Canberra. Pop: 23 029 674 (2013 est). Area: 7 682 300 sq km (2 966 150 sq miles)

Australia

1. Nation occupying the whole of Australia, the smallest continent , between the Indian Ocean and the southwest Pacific Ocean . Its capital is Canberra , and its largest city is Sydney .

Notes

The first settlements there were penal colonies for British convicts.

Its aboriginal tribes, which still exist today ( see aborigines ), are thought to have migrated from Southeast Asia twenty thousand years ago.

Example Sentences

He did travel to China and Australia while the story was unfolding.

From The Daily Beast

A variety of systems were in place across countries like the United Kingdom, France, and Australia.

From The Daily Beast

“Dwarf mistletoe is freaky, freaky, freaky stuff,” says David Watson, an ecologist at Charles Sturt University in Australia.

From The Daily Beast

In 1996, Bourjerdi was granted political asylum and went to Australia as a refugee.

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As a cafe in Sydney, Australia came under siege by a hostage-taking gunman on Monday, those nearby attempted to flee the area.

From The Daily Beast

He is dancing on an outcrop (that means a ledge of rock) in the middle of Australia at six o'clock before breakfast.

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Description of the shoals and reefs in the neighbourhood of the coasts of Australia.

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Finally, we left Australia on the 9th of June, four months after our first landing on its sunny shores.

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The goldfields of Australia are historic, and the silver, lead and zinc mines of Broken Hill deserve particular mention.

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Its habitat in Australia is known to extend as wide as twenty-four degrees of latitude, and twenty-six degrees of longitude.

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