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Oceania  n.  A large group of islands in the south Pacific sometimes including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago.
Synonyms: Oceanica.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Oceania" Quotes from Famous Books



... de las Indias, lib. xix. cap. xiii.; Coleccion de documentos ... de ultramar, tom. iv. p. 57 (deposition of the Spanish captain at the Isle of Mona); Pacheco, etc.: Coleccion de documentos ... de las posesiones espanoles en America y Oceania, tom. xl. p. 305 (cross-examination of witnesses by officers of the Royal Audiencia in San Domingo just after the visit of the English ship to that place); English Historical Review, XX. ...
— The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century • Clarence Henry Haring

... lettre. We have seen that he followed with little variation the route traced by his predecessors, in the Pacific Ocean. In fact, nearly all had approached by the dangerous archipelago, leaving unexplored that portion of Oceania, where islands are most numerous, and where Cook was later ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century • Jules Verne

... let us turn to social structure. We find in Oceania islands where Europeans have been settled as missionaries or traders perhaps for fifty or a hundred years; we find the people wearing European clothes and European ornaments, using European utensils and even European weapons when they fight; ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... Oceania, island group in the South Pacific Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... live quite close to us. We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,—we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place. Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning ...
— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai

... antauxa flanko. Obviate malhelpi. Obvious videbla, evidenta. Occasion okazo. Occasional okaza. Occult kasxata. Occupant okupanto, logxanto. Occupation okupo. Occupy okupi. Occupied with, to be okupigxi pri. Occur okazi. Occurrence okazo. Ocean oceano. Oceania Oceanio. Ochre okro. Octave oktavo. October Oktobro. Ocular okula. Ocularly okule. Oculist okulisto. Odd (peculiar) stranga. Odd (number) nepara. Oddly strange. Ode odo. Odious malaminda. Odium malamo. Odour odoro. Odorous ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... way, my correspondents have desired me on their behalf to pay in to your account at the Oceania the sum of five thousand pounds. ...
— A Bid for Fortune - or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta • Guy Boothby



Words linked to "Oceania" :   Pacific Ocean, Oceanica, Micronesia, archipelago



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