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TASMANIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An island off the southeastern coast of Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Holonyms ("Tasmania" is a part of...):
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
Derivation:
Tasmanian (of or relating to Tasmania)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An Australian state on the island of Tasmania
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Australian state (one of the several states constituting Australia)
Meronyms (parts of "Tasmania"):
Hobart (a port and state capital of Tasmania)
Holonyms ("Tasmania" 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)
Derivation:
Tasmanian (of or relating to Tasmania)
