CANBERRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Canberra mean? 

• CANBERRA (noun)
  The noun CANBERRA has 1 sense:

1. the capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia

  Familiarity information: CANBERRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANBERRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Australian capital; Canberra; capital of Australia

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Canberra" 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)

 Context examples 

The telemetry and tracking data were received by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna station in Canberra, Australia.

(Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet, NASA)

Reducing the amount of space junk in orbit has been the focus of a meeting of scientists this week in Canberra organized by Australia’s Space Environment Research Center.

(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)

Loss of contact with the Cassini spacecraft occurred at 7:55 a.m. EDT (4:55 a.m. PDT), with the signal received by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna complex in Canberra, Australia.

(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)

The system, which would operate through a telescope near the Australian capital, Canberra, is expected to be finished early next year.

(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)