AUSTRALIAN ALPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Australian Alps mean? 

• AUSTRALIAN ALPS (noun)
  The noun AUSTRALIAN ALPS has 1 sense:

1. a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range

  Familiarity information: AUSTRALIAN ALPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTRALIAN ALPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Holonyms ("Australian Alps" is a part of...):

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (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)

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)

Eastern Highlands; Great Dividing Range (a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia)