New Holland

English

Etymology

(sense 1) Coined in 1644 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman as Nieuw Holland.
(sense 2) Uncertain, Parts of Holland was in the south of Lincolnshire.

Proper noun

New Holland

  1. (obsolete) The continent and the country of Australia.
    Synonyms: Australia, (obsolete) Terra Australis
    • 1787, Chart of New Holland, published by J. Stockdale, London [1]
    • 1952 November, “The Western Australian Government Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
      Colonisation began towards the end of 1826, when a British settlement was founded at Albany, on the southern coast, and in the next year the whole territory (then known as New Holland) became a possession of the British Crown.
  2. A village, civil parish, and port in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0823). [1]
  3. A settlement in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community in Hall County, Georgia.
    2. A village in Logan County, Illinois.
    3. A village in Fayette County and Pickaway County, Ohio.
    4. A community in Hyde County, North Carolina.
    5. A borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
    6. A census-designated place in Douglas County, South Dakota.
  5. (historical) Synonym of Dutch Brazil.

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  1. ^ Parish map (England)
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