AUSTRALIAN STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Australian state mean? 

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

1. one of the several states constituting Australia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTRALIAN STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the several states constituting Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("Australian state" is a kind of...):

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

Queensland (a state in northeastern Australia)

New South Wales (an Australian state in southeastern Australia)

Victoria (a state in southeastern Australia)

Tasmania (an Australian state on the island of Tasmania)

South Australia (a state in south central Australia)

Western Australia (a state containing the western third of Australia)

Holonyms ("Australian state" 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)