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Australasia

/ˌɒstɹəˈleɪʒə/

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Australia/ˌɔstɹəˈlæɪʒɐ/

Australasia proper noun: synonym of Oceania: Oceania ({{place|en|A <> composed of the islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean, principally divided into Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia).

Proper noun

Australasia

  1. Synonym of Oceania: Oceania ({{place|en|A <> composed of the islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean, principally divided into Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia).
    Synonyms:
    Oceania
  2. A continental region in Oceania, consisting of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighbouring Melanesian islands.

Australasia meaning in Arabic

Australasia in Arabic

Australia, NZ, New Guinea and neighbouring islands
أسترالاسيا astrālāsiyā

Synonyms of Australasia

Origin of Australasia

Borrowed from French Australasie, coined by French scholar and politician Charles de Brosses in 1756, from the Latin for “south of Asia”. By surface analysis, Austral- + Asia.

Words formed from Australasia

Words that rhyme with Australasia

Questions about Australasia

What does Australasia mean?
Australasia means synonym of Oceania: Oceania ({{place|en|A <> composed of the islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean, principally divided into Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia).
What is Australasia in Arabic?
Australasia in Arabic is أسترالاسيا (astrālāsiyā). See Australasia meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is Australasia?
Australasia is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Australasia?
Australasia is pronounced /ˌɒstɹəˈleɪʒə/ (UK).

Words near Australasia in the dictionary

  1. Austral Ocean
  2. austral parakeet
  3. austral parakeets
  4. austral-
  5. Austral.
  6. Australasia
  7. Australasian
  8. Australasian figbird
  9. Australasian figbirds
  10. Australasian pig-nose turtle
  11. Australasian pig-nose turtles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Australasia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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