TASMANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tasmania mean? 

• TASMANIA (noun)
  The noun TASMANIA has 2 senses:

1. an Australian state on the island of Tasmania

2. an island off the southeastern coast of Australia

  Familiarity information: TASMANIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TASMANIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Australian state on the island of Tasmania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Australian state (one of the several states constituting Australia)

Meronyms (parts of "Tasmania"):

Hobart (a port and state capital of Tasmania)

Holonyms ("Tasmania" 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)

Derivation:

Tasmanian (of or relating to Tasmania)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An island off the southeastern coast of Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Tasmania" is a part of...):

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)

Derivation:

Tasmanian (of or relating to Tasmania)

 Context examples 

The DFT1 cancer was first observed in north-east Tasmania in 1996, but has subsequently spread widely throughout the island, causing significant declines in devil populations.

(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)

After a nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific, a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution.

(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)

For now, DFT2 appears to be confined to a peninsula in Tasmania’s south-east.

(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)

Tasmanian devils are marsupial carnivores endemic to the Australian island of Tasmania.

(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)