NORTHERN TERRITORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Northern Territory mean? 

• NORTHERN TERRITORY (noun)
  The noun NORTHERN TERRITORY has 1 sense:

1. a territory in north central Australia

  Familiarity information: NORTHERN TERRITORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHERN TERRITORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A territory in north central Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "Northern Territory"):

Darwin (provincial capital of the Northern Territory of Australia)

Holonyms ("Northern Territory" 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)