From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Australia
noun
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: {Commonwealth of Australia}]
2: the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
AUSTRALIA, noun A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
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