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EASTERN HIGHLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia
Synonyms:
Eastern Highlands; Great Dividing Range
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)
Meronyms (parts of "Eastern Highlands"):
Australian Alps (a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range)
Holonyms ("Eastern Highlands" 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)
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
