Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun commonwealth_of_australia

1 sense of commonwealth of australia

Sense 1
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)
       INSTANCE OF=> country, state, land -- (the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries")