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say it: gahn-DWAH-nah-land
gondwanaland is a noun meaning "a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica". It is pronounced /ˌɡɑnˈdwɑnɑˌlænd/ — gahn-DWAH-nah-land. It carries one recorded sense.
a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gondwanaland come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.