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Meaning of New Holland | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The continent and the country of Australia.
    obsolete
  2. A village, civil parish, and port in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0823).
  3. A settlement in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
  5. An unincorporated community in Hall County, Georgia.
  6. A village in Logan County, Illinois.
  7. A village in Fayette County and Pickaway County, Ohio.
  8. A community in Hyde County, North Carolina.
  9. A borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
  10. A census-designated place in Douglas County, South Dakota.
  11. Synonym of Dutch Brazil.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“1787, Chart of New Holland, published by J. Stockdale, London https://web.archive.org/web/20060107065752/http://www.nla.gov.au/rmaps/nk1586.html”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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