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australia | hamilton |

As a adjective australia

is .

As a noun hamilton is

(slang: a united states ten-dollar bill).

australia

English

(wikipedia Australia)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.
  • * 1693 : translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of ) titled Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe'' published 1692, translation published in London in 1693. Quoted in ''The Australian Language by Sidney J. Baker, second edition, 1966, chapter XIX, section 1, pages 388-9.
    • This is all that I can have a certain knowledge of as to that side of Australia ...
  • * 1814 , (Matthew Flinders), A Voyage to Terra Australis , volume 1 ( at Project Gutenberg)
    • Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA ; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
  • (geology) The continent of Australia-New Guinea. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.

    • Synonyms

    * (country) Aussieland (colloquial), land down under, New Holland (historial), Oz (colloquial), Terra Australis (historical) * (continent) Meganesia, Sahul

    Hypernyms

    * Antipodes

    Derived terms

    * Aussie * Australasia * Australia Day * Australia Felix * Australian * Australianism * Eastralia * Order of Australia * Westralia

    Related terms

    * Austria * Austrasie

    See also

    * * AU * Aust *

    External links

    * Australia time zones with map and map current local time in Australia. English words suffixed with -ia ----

    hamilton

    English

    Etymology 1

    Scottish lowlands family name originating from a place name in Leicestershire, from (etyl) . (wikipedia Hamilton)

    Proper noun

    (s)
  • , transferred from the surname.
  • Cities in Alabama, California, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Australia, Bermuda, Ontario, New Zealand and Scotland.
    • Derived terms
    * Hamiltonian

    Etymology 2

    From the portrait of (Alexander Hamilton) featured on them.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A United States ten-dollar bill.
  • * 2000 March 9, "time4funwithu" (username), "(ASP) New Orleans - Zoey, in alt.sex.prostitution, Usenet :
    • I think the girls all work for $200 p/hr, give or take a few Hamiltons .
  • * 2006 September, Josh Norem, a review in Maximum PC , page 78:
    • We all know that the stock cooler that comes with your CPU will get the job done, but it won't be exceptionally cool, nor are stock coolers particularly quiet or attractive. Aftermarket coolers, on the other hand, are all of the above, and usually cost just a few Hamiltons .
  • * 2007 , Brian Johnson, Duncan Mackenzie, Harvey Chute, Zune for Dummies , page 110:
    • All these products cost around $30 each, but although you can use other methods to accomplish the same result without any cost at all, we think the simplicity of using a single program is well worth a few Hamiltons .

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