SOUTH AUSTRALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South Australia mean? 

• SOUTH AUSTRALIA (noun)
  The noun SOUTH AUSTRALIA has 1 sense:

1. a state in south central Australia

  Familiarity information: SOUTH AUSTRALIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH AUSTRALIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in south central Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Australian state (one of the several states constituting Australia)

Meronyms (parts of "South Australia"):

Adelaide (the state capital of South Australia)

Holonyms ("South Australia" 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 

There is a second line of steamers which connect South Australia with England, but we will draw the larger cover first.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The research by the University of South Australia in partnership with the University of Stuttgart, Flinders University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany, uses state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms to demonstrate a link between personality and eye movements.

(Eyes Can Indicate Personality Type, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I was brought up in the freer, less conventional atmosphere of South Australia, and this English life, with its proprieties and its primness, is not congenial to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)