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GULF OF CARPENTARIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia
Synonyms:
Carpentaria; Gulf of Carpentaria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
gulf (an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay)
Holonyms ("Gulf of Carpentaria" 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)
