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Tasmania vs Tasman - What's the difference?

tasmania | tasman | Derived terms |

Tasmania is a derived term of tasman.


As proper nouns the difference between tasmania and tasman

is that tasmania is tasmania while tasman is a surname.

tasmania

English

(Tasmania)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • One of the six federal states of Australia, consisting of one large, eponymous and several much smaller islands, off the eastern part of Australia's south coast, having its capital at Hobart.
  • (historical) The colony that became the state of Tasmania at federation in 1901.
  • The large island comprising the majority of the state of Tasmania's land area and on which most of its inhabitants live.

    • Synonyms

    * (abbreviation) Tassie (colloquial) * (historical) Van Diemen's Land

    Derived terms

    * Tasmanian * local marsupial species: Tasmanian devil, Tasmanian wolf * Tasmanian cider tree * Taswegian (colloquial) * Trans-Tasman (colloquial) * TAS / Tas / (abbreviation)

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    tasman

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A surname.
  • * 1854 , Charles Dickens, Household words, Volume 8
    • That his Maria should become Mrs. Tasman , he knew very well was a thing not for a moment to be thought of. Whoever won his daughter must have wealth and a patent of nobility.

    Derived terms

    * Tasmania

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