austronesia

1. 1.

   islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)

   Broaderarchipelago

   Part ofPacific

   PartsMelanesiaMicronesiaPolynesiaIndonesia

   Polynesia

Other forms of austronesia

plural

austronesias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about austronesia

What does austronesia mean?

austronesia means "islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)".

How many syllables are in austronesia?

austronesia has 5 syllables: a-u-stro-ne-sia. The stress falls on "stro".

Is austronesia a common word?

austronesia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.