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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A state of southern Australia on the Indian Ocean. It was founded as a British colony in 1836. Adelaide is the capital and largest city.
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- proper noun One of the six states of
Australia , located in the central southern part of the continent, with its capital atAdelaide .
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- noun a state in south central Australia
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Examples
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The New Province, called South Australia, which, by an Act of the
A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne
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MATTHEW FLINDER., R. N.. commander of H.M.S. _Investigator_, and the discoverer of the country now called South Australia, was on 12th Jan.,
The History of Tasmania, Volume I John West 1840
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A Supreme Court judge in Adelaide said that the level of abuse, in what has been dubbed South Australia's house of horrors, was hard to believe.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Trezona Bore, West Central Flinders, South Australia, which is the area where sponge fossils were found that could be the oldest animal bodies ever discovered.
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Business SA chief executive Peter Vaughan said the state's situation was more dire given the high number of over 60s but low number of under 30s who call South Australia home.
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Minmetals and OZ Minerals have put forward a revised bid that does not include the Prominent Hill gold and copper mine in South Australia, which is in the Woomera prohibited area weapons testing range and the subject of national security concerns that blocked the bid.
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The nearest city to Perth with a population over 1 million is Adelaide in South Australia, which is 2,104 kilometres (1,307 mi) away.
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The nearest city to Perth with a population over 1 million is Adelaide in South Australia, which is 2,104 kilometres (1,307 mi) away.
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The new deal excludes the jewel in OzMineral's crown, the Prominent Hill mine in South Australia, which is near a weapons testing range.
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Minmetals and OZ Minerals have put forward a revised bid that does not include the Prominent Hill gold and copper mine in South Australia, which is in the Woomera prohibited area weapons testing range and the subject of national security concerns that blocked the bid.
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