Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Commonwealth of Australia   /kˈɑmənwˌɛlθ əv ɔstrˈeɪljə/   Listen
Commonwealth of Australia

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: Australia.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Commonwealth of Australia" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought, too, that it would be useful to students of political institutions to give in the appendix comparisons between the leading provisions of the federal systems of the Dominion of Canada and the Commonwealth of Australia. I must add that, in the revision of the historical narrative, I have been much aided by the judicious criticism and apt suggestions of the Editor of the ...
— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot



Words linked to "Commonwealth of Australia" :   Tasmania, Aussie, Eyre Peninsula, lagerphone, Nullarbor Plain, Great Victoria Desert, Eastern Highlands, throwing stick, state, pom, walkabout, Cercospora kopkei, sealed, Simpson Desert, Murdoch, Commonwealth of Nations, Norfolk Island, country, Namoi, Australian state, Aboriginal Australian, mate, Namoi River, gilgai soil, Lake Eyre, Murray, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australian capital, Queensland, sundowner, Great Dividing Range, tucker-bag, New South Wales, land, swagger, boomerang, Great Australian Bight, capital of Australia, yellow spot fungus, plonk, Rupert Murdoch, Western Australia, British Commonwealth, Keith Rupert Murdoch, Gibson Desert, pommy, Cape York, swag, swagman, Murrumbidgee River, throw stick, Murray River, Carpentaria, Great Sandy Desert, Cape York Peninsula, returning officer, South Australia, Victoria, Australian, Eyre, Murrumbidgee, swaggie, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Australian Alps, Northern Territory, Canberra, British Empire, bonzer, perisher, billabong



Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com