New Holland
English
editEtymology
edit(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
edit- (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.
- A village, civil parish, and port in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0823). [1]
- A settlement in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Hall County, Georgia.
- A village in Logan County, Illinois.
- A village in Fayette County and Pickaway County, Ohio.
- A community of Hyde County, North Carolina.
- A borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
- A census-designated place in Douglas County, South Dakota.
- (historical) Synonym of Dutch Brazil
Translations
editobsolete: Australia
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References
editCategories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English multiword terms
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms with quotations
- en:Villages in Lincolnshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Lincolnshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Jamaica
- en:Places in Jamaica
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Unincorporated communities in Georgia, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Georgia, USA
- en:Villages in Illinois, USA
- en:Villages in the United States
- en:Places in Illinois, USA
- en:Villages in Ohio, USA
- en:Places in Ohio, USA
- en:Villages in North Carolina, USA
- en:Places in North Carolina, USA
- en:Boroughs in Pennsylvania, USA
- en:Places in Pennsylvania, USA
- en:Census-designated places in South Dakota, USA
- en:Census-designated places in the United States
- en:Places in South Dakota, USA
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Australia