NORFOLK ISLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Norfolk Island mean? 

• NORFOLK ISLAND (noun)
  The noun NORFOLK ISLAND has 1 sense:

1. an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony

  Familiarity information: NORFOLK ISLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORFOLK ISLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Norfolk Island" 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)