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OCEANIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)

Synonyms:

Oceania; Oceanica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Oceania"):

Melanesia (the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania)

Micronesia (the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania)

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)

Holonyms ("Oceania" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

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