New Zealand

Meanings

Proper Noun

• country Oceania (continent), to the east of Australia. Official name: New Zealand. Abbreviation: NZ or Aotearoa
• The islands of New Zealand, especially the North Island, South Island and nearby coastal islands.
• The Realm of New Zealand, including the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and the Ross Dependency.

Noun

• A rabbit of a breed that originated in California from rabbits imported from New Zealand.

Related

Similar words

• Aotearoa
• Aotearoa New Zealand
• Dominion of New Zealand
• Manawa
• Enzed
• Godzone
• Kiwiland
• Nu Zillund
• Land of the Long White Cloud
• Maoriland
• NZ
• Zealandia
• Fernland

Origin

• From Dutch Nieuw-Zeeland (nieuw calqued as new), after the Dutch settlement in Batavia, which in turn had been named after the Dutch province of Zeeland.