EASTERN HIGHLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eastern Highlands mean? 

• EASTERN HIGHLANDS (noun)
  The noun EASTERN HIGHLANDS has 1 sense:

1. a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia

  Familiarity information: EASTERN HIGHLANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASTERN HIGHLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Eastern Highlands; Great Dividing Range

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Eastern Highlands"):

Australian Alps (a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range)

Holonyms ("Eastern Highlands" 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)