GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Australian Bight mean? 

• GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT (noun)
  The noun GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

bight (a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline)

Holonyms ("Great Australian Bight" 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)