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CAPITAL OF AUSTRALIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia
Synonyms:
Australian capital; Canberra; capital of Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("capital of 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)