Synonyms:
Australia, Commonwealth_of_Australia
Meaning: 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
Usage examples
We can go to Europe, or Australia, or anywhere we wish.
Our picked men, and many of our picked women, emigrate to America and Australia.
'It's a dreadful thing for Willie, if it gets about,' he said; 'a tale of that sort would follow him to Australia.'
"Even the old chap lost in the bush in Australia had a savage with him who dug a hole in a tree, and pulled out a nice fat worm to eat.
Among some tribes of North-western Australia the rain-maker repairs to a piece of ground which is set apart for the purpose of rain-making.
I may be told that Christianity is yet alive and flourishing, that its priesthood and its churches hold possession of Europe and America and Australia.
Mr. Lennox has discovered that he sailed for Australia only last August; only two months before Frederick was in England, and gave us the names of---- '
As the years went by, his letters to his oldest son told of his own work and plans. When his youngest son sailed away to live in Australia, he wrote: "Poor Plorn is gone.
The following remarks of Professor Owen, in respect to Australia are very suggestive:--"All the marsupial animals--and it is one of their curious peculiarities--are nocturnal.
In time of severe drought the Dieri of Central Australia, loudly lamenting the impoverished state of the country and their own half-starved condition, call upon the spirits of their remote predecessors, whom they call Mura-muras, to grant them power to make a heavy rain-fall.