commonwealth of australia

1. 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

   SynonymsAustralia

   Broadercountry

   Part ofAustraliaBritish CommonwealthBritish Empire

   PartsCanberraAustralian stateQueenslandNew South WalesVictoriaTasmania

Questions about commonwealth of australia

What does commonwealth of australia mean?

commonwealth of australia means "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".

What is another word for commonwealth of australia?

Close synonyms include Australia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commonwealth of australia a common word?

commonwealth of australia 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.