[oh-shee-an-ee-uh, -ah-nee-uh]

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the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and traditionally Australasia. About 3,450,000 sq. mi. (8,935,500 sq. km).

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Wellington, New Zealand Our Oceania pick is the latest city to wholeheartedly embrace the global Brooklyn movement.

Oceania had to be at war with someone otherwise they would begin to see what the world around them lacked.

In works such as Oceania, featuring cut-outs birds, fish, coral and leaves, the walls of his apartment became the canvas itself.

Of those, 61 are European, 19 are Latin American, 14 are North American, 11 are African, 11 are Asian, and one comes from Oceania.

You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words, says Syme, the Dr. Johnson of Oceania.

They are found in every sea, but they abound chiefly in the Indian Ocean and Oceania.

We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.

It is a straggler to Oceania and has not been recorded in the Hawaiian Islands.

When it first escapes from the parent Hydroid stock, the Oceania is almost spherical in form.

This flyway is probably the one which supplies to central and eastern Oceania the largest wintering populations of shore birds.

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Oceania

the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia: sometimes also including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago

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Oceania

"southern Pacific island and Australia, conceived as a continent," 1849, Modern Latin, from French Ocanie (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.

Online Etymology Dictionary, 2010 Douglas Harper

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