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

2 senses 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")

Sense 2
Australia -- (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
       INSTANCE OF=> continent -- (one of the large landmasses of the earth; "there are seven continents"; "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot")