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New Holland

New Holland proper noun: the continent and the country of Australia.

Proper noun

New Holland

  1. (obsolete) The continent and the country of Australia.
    • 1787, Chart of New Holland, published by J. Stockdale, London https://web.archive.org/web/20060107065752/http://www.nla.gov.au/rmaps/nk1586.html
    • Colonisation began towards the end of 1826, when a British settlement was founded at Albany, on the southern coast, and in the next year the whole territory (then known as New Holland) became a possession of the British Crown.1952 November, “The Western Australian Government Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 760
    Synonyms:
    Australia, Terra Australis
  2. A village, civil parish, and port in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0823).
  3. A settlement in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.
  4. An unincorporated community in Hall County, Georgia.
  5. A village in Logan County, Illinois.
  6. A village in Fayette County and Pickaway County, Ohio.
  7. A community in Hyde County, North Carolina.
  8. A borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
  9. A census-designated place in Douglas County, South Dakota.
  10. (historical) Synonym of Dutch Brazil.
    Synonyms:
    Dutch Brazil

Synonyms of New Holland

Origin of New Holland

(sense 1) Coined in 1644 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman as Nieuw Holland. (sense 2) Uncertain, Parts of Holland was in the south of Lincolnshire.

Words formed from New Holland

Questions about New Holland

What does New Holland mean?
New Holland means the continent and the country of Australia.
What part of speech is New Holland?
New Holland is a proper noun.

Words near New Holland in the dictionary

  1. New Hebridean
  2. New Hebrides
  3. New High German
  4. New Hinksey
  5. new historicism
  6. New Holland
  7. New Holland honeyeater
  8. New Holland honeyeaters
  9. New Hollywood
  10. New Holstein
  11. New Hope

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