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NORTHERN TERRITORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A territory in north central Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "Northern Territory"):
Darwin (provincial capital of the Northern Territory of Australia)
Holonyms ("Northern Territory" is a part of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)