Oceania
pronunciation
How to pronounce Oceania in British English:
UK [ˌəʊsiˈɑːniə]
How to pronounce Oceania in American English:
US [ˌoʊʃiˈɑːniə]
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- Noun:
- a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
Word Origin
- Oceania
- "southern Pacific island and Australia, conceived as a continent," 1849, Modern Latin, from French Océanie (c. 1812). Apparently coined by Danish geographer Conrad Malte-Brun (1755-1826). Earlier in English as Oceanica (1832). Oceania was the name of one of the superstates in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Oceanea, name of James Harrington's 17c. ideal state, later was applied to the British empire.
Example
- 1. My fellow passengers were aged between 30 and 80 , and mainly from oceania .
- 2. And as late as the 19th century , skull-cups were reportedly used in fiji and other islands in oceania .
- 3. Throughout oceania more than 1200 bird species have become extinct and climate change is threatening to worsen the crisis , it warns .
- 4. The government-affiliated trade organization 's survey focused on the business operations of japanese-affiliated firms in 20 countries and regions in asian and oceania .
- 5. With those ethnic chinese communities under regular threat , few asian navies have a more compelling rationale to apply amphibious force in oceania than china .