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WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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I. (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)