Oceania

From French Océanie, coined circa 1812 by geographer Conrad Malte-Brun, from the Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊ.ʃiˈɑː.nɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊ.ʃiˈæn.i.ə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɐʉ.ʃiːˈaː.ni.ə/, /-njə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌəʉ.ʃiˈaː.ni.ə/, /-njə/
• (Ireland, also) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊʃiˈænə/

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• Hyphenation: O‧ce‧a‧nia

Oceania

2. A continent or continental region composed of many islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia) plus Australasia, located between Asia, Antarctica and the Americas.

Despite the fact that Oceania is not widely classified a continent in anglophone countries, some people use the term when referring to the continents of the world in place of the Australian continent, mostly because several Oceanian countries are located in the Pacific Ocean and would otherwise be unable to be classified within a continent unless grouped in with Australia.

Oceania contains the following countries:

Territories in Oceania belonging to other countries include:

• Australasia
• Melanesia
• Micronesia
• Polynesia

• Oceanic
• Oceanian
• Oceanianist
• ocean

• → Japanese: オセアニア (Oseania)

Borrowed from French Océanie.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.se.əˈni.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.se.əˈni.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [o.se.aˈni.a]

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Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

• oceànic

Borrowed from French Océanie.

• IPA^(key): /o.t͡ʃeˈa.nja/
• Rhymes: -anja
• Hyphenation: O‧ce‧à‧nia

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

• oceaniano

• oceano

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [oː.keˈa.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.t͡ʃeˈaː.ni.a]

Ōceania f sg (genitive Ōceaniae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.t͡sɛˈaɲ.ja/

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• Rhymes: -aɲja
• Syllabification: O‧ce‧an‧ia

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

• Oceania in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Oceânia

Borrowed from French Océanie.

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: O‧ce‧a‧ni‧a

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

• The form Oceania is almost the only form used in Brazil, while both coexist in Portugal.

Borrowed from French Océanie. By surface analysis, ocean +‎ -ia.

• IPA^(key): [o.tʃe̯a.ni.a]

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

Internationalism, see English Oceania.

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

   Synonym: Ynysoedd y De

• (countries of Oceania) gwledydd Oceania (Ynysoedd y De); Awstralia, Ffiji, Ciribati, Fanwatw, Micronesia, Nawrw, Niue, Palaw, Papwa Gini Newydd, Samoa, Seland Newydd, Tonga, Twfalw, Ynysoedd Cook, Ynysoedd Marshall, Ynysoedd Solomon