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New Holland
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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
en obsolete The continent and the country of Australia.
en Australia Terra Australis<q:obsolete>
1787, Chart of New Holland, published by J. Stockdale, London
en 1952 November The Western Australian Government Railways Railway Magazine 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.
en village/cpar/and/port dist/North Lincolnshire co/Lincolnshire cc/England OS grid ref TA0823. Parish map (England)
en settlement x/Saint Elizabeth c/Jamaica.
en number of places c/USA:
en ucomm co/Hall County s/Georgia.
en village co/Logan County s/Illinois.
en village co/Fayette County and co/Pickaway County s/Ohio.
en community co/Hyde County s/North Carolina.
en bor in co/Lancaster County s/Pennsylvania.
en CDP co/Douglas County s/South Dakota.
en historical en Dutch Brazil.
Derived terms
en New Holland honeyeater
Descendants
haw Nuhōlani 1
Translations
obsolete: Australia
Dutch: nl Nieuw-Holland n
Estonian: et Uus-Holland
French: fr Nouvelle-Hollande f
German: de Neuholland
Hawaiian: haw Nuhōlani
Japanese: ja ニューホランド Nyū horando
Latin: la Nova Hollandia f
Rarotongan: rar Nū ʻŌrani
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Нова Низоземска f
Latin: sh Nova Nizozemska f
Spanish: es Nueva Holanda f
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: ota فلمنك جدید Felemenk-i Cedîd
References
en Australia