Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
[syn: Australia, Commonwealth of Australia]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Commonwealth of Australia
n 1: 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 [syn:
Australia, Commonwealth of Australia]