Australasia
Meaning
Proper Noun
- Oceania.
- Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighbouring islands.
Origin
- Borrowed from French Australasie, coined by French scholar and politician Charles de Brosses in 1756, from the Latin for “south of Asia”.
Modern English dictionary
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