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trans-Oceania

trans-Oceania adjective: beyond, spanning or crossing, or on or from the other side of Oceania.

Adjective

trans-Oceania (not comparable)

  1. Beyond, spanning or crossing, or on or from the other side of Oceania.
    • By the end of the 1970s, as the legendary Samoan band The Five Stars sang [in their song 'Pipa', quoted as an epigraph], New Zealand had become part of a trans-Oceania Samoan world. This Samoan world ranged from Niu Sila (New Zealand) to Amerika (the United States) but always retained Samoa ('Hamo'...2018, Damon Salesa, “Chapter 2: Native seas and native seaways: The Pacific Ocean and New Zealand”, in Frances Steel, editor, New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives, Bridget Williams Books...

Origin of trans-Oceania

From trans- + Oceania.

Questions about trans-Oceania

What does trans-Oceania mean?
Trans-Oceania means beyond, spanning or crossing, or on or from the other side of Oceania.
What part of speech is trans-Oceania?
Trans-Oceania is an adjective.

Words near trans-Oceania in the dictionary

  1. trans-Neptunian
  2. trans-Neptunian object
  3. trans-Neptunian objects
  4. Trans-New Guinea
  5. Trans-New Guinean
  6. trans-Oceania
  7. trans-Pacific
  8. trans-phenomenal
  9. trans-ship
  10. trans-shipped
  11. trans-shipping

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