WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Western Australia mean? 

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

1. a state containing the western third of Australia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WESTERN AUSTRALIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state containing the western third of Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Australian state (one of the several states constituting Australia)

Meronyms (parts of "Western Australia"):

Perth (the state capital of Western Australia)

Holonyms ("Western 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 

Until recently, the colorful bird had not been seen in Western Australia for more than 100 years.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

Prior to this discovery, the oldest microfossils reported were found in Western Australia and dated at 3,460 million years old but some scientists think they might be non-biological artefacts in the rocks.

(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Johnson said his work on the project started when he talked with Wing and learned about the well-preserved, 3.2-billion-year-old ocean crust from the Archaean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago) in a remote part of Western Australia.

(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)

Fossils discovered by The University of New South Wales (UNSW) scientists in 3.48 billion-year-old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

(First Life Ever on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The blurry image taken in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, suggests the night parrot is fighting back from the brink of extinction.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

The study describes the discovery and the detailed analysis of the remains undertaken by the team from UCL, the Geological Survey of Norway, US Geological Survey, The University of Western Australia, the University of Ottawa and the University of Leeds.

(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Alexander Watson, a biologist at conservation group, WWF Australia, who has worked with Aboriginal rangers in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, says it is an extraordinary discovery.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

There have been precious few sightings since, but indigenous wildlife rangers say they have photographed one of the nocturnal, ground-dwelling birds in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)