australia

Definition of australia in English English dictionary: The continent of Australia-New Guinea. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent; A country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia
Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.; The continent of Australia. The Commonwealth of Australia covers a number of remote outlying island territories which are not considered part of the continent. Many consider the Commonwealth of Australia to cover the entire continent. However New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent; a large island between the Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean, which is both a country and a continent (=one of the seven main areas of land on the earth) . Population: 19,300,000 (2001). Capital: Canberra. officially Commonwealth of Australia Smallest continent and sixth largest country (in area) on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans. Commonwealth of Australia South Australia Western Australia; {i} continent southeast of Asia between the Indian and Pacific oceans; Commonwealth of Australia, country located on the continent 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 the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean; Upsidedownland; Austl; Aussieland; oz
Australia Day: 26th January, Australia's National Day in commemoration of the foundation of the first settlement in 1788
Australia Felix: An early proposed name for parts of Victoria (Australia) explored by Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855), Latin for “Fortunate Australia” or “Happy Australia”
1839: I named this region Australia Felix, the better to distinguish it from the parched deserts of the interior country where we had wandered so unprofitably and so long. — Thomas Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, volume 2.
Australia Day: a national holiday in Australia on or near 26 January each year, in memory of when the British first came to Australia in 1788
Australia.: Aussie
Australia.: Lucky Country
Australia.: Aus
Commonwealth of Australia: the formal and full name of the country Australia
North Australia: a short-lived colony formed by combining what are now the regions of Queensland and the Northern Territory
Order of Australia: An order of chivalry established for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement
South Australia: One of the six states of Australia, located in the central southern part of the continent, with its capital at Adelaide
Western Australia: One of the six states of Australia, occupying the western third of the content, with its capital at Perth
South Australia: region in the southern section of Australia
South Australia: a state in central South Australia whose capital is Adelaide. State (pop., 2001: 1,514,854), south-central Australia. It covers an area of 379,720 sq mi (983,470 sq km), and its capital is Adelaide. The Dutch visited the coast in 1627. British explorers arrived in the early 1800s, and it was colonized as a British province in 1836. Its vast interior, a large part of which is barren, includes Lake Eyre and the Flinders Ranges. A major world source of opals, it also produces most of the wine and brandy consumed in Australia. It has the country's largest shipyards. It became a state of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Its southeastern part has become industrialized since World War II
Western Australia: the largest state of Australia, in the west of the country, whose capital is Perth. State (pop., 2001: 1,906,114), western Australia. Covering 976,790 sq mi (2,529,880 sq km), it constitutes one-third of the continent's area but has less than one-tenth of Australia's population; its capital is Perth. The extensive interior region has three deserts: Great Sandy, Gibson, and Great Victoria. The coast along the Timor Sea and Indian Ocean has only a few good harbours; notable inlets are Joseph Bonaparte and Exmouth gulfs. Australian Aboriginal peoples have occupied Western Australia for about 40,000 years. The western coast was first visited in 1616 by the Dutch; it was later explored by Englishman William Dampier in 1688 and 1699. In 1829 Capt. James Stirling led the first group of settlers there to establish Australia's first nonconvict colony. The discovery of gold in 1886 prompted a movement for constitutional autonomy, which was granted in 1890. In 1900 it was the last state to ratify the newly constituted Commonwealth of Australia. Initially it suffered from slow growth, but since 1960 its economy, fueled by agriculture and mining (notably of hydrocarbons), has been expanding
Western Australia: western part of the Australian continent
south australia: a state in south central Australia
western australia: a state containing the western third of Australia
western australia coral pea: vigorous climber of the forests of western Australia; grown for their dense racemes of attractive bright rose-purple flowers

australia

Hyphenation

Aus·tral·ia

Turkish pronunciation

ôstreylyı

Pronunciation

/ôˈstrālyə/ /ɔːˈstreɪljə/

Etymology

() First attested 16th century, from Latin terra austrālis incōgnita (“unknown southern land”), from auster (“the south wind”). Used also in 1693 (quotation below). Popularised by Matthew Flinders in 1814 (quotation below). Distantly cognate to Austria – same Proto-Indo-European root, but via German where it retained the earlier sense of “east” rather than “south”. See also Terra Australis.