New Holland en · PROPN
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.
Meanings
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(obsolete) The continent and the country of Australia.
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.
1952 November, “The Western Australian Government Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
- A village, civil parish, and port in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0823).
- A settlement in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Hall County, Georgia.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A village in Logan County, Illinois.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A village in Fayette County and Pickaway County, Ohio.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A community in Hyde County, North Carolina.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A census-designated place in Douglas County, South Dakota.
- (historical) Synonym of Dutch Brazil.
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Synonyms
Australia · Dutch Brazil · Terra Australis
Translations (12)
sh Нова Низоземска (obsolete: Australia) · sh Nova Nizozemska (obsolete: Australia) · fr Nouvelle-Hollande (obsolete: Australia) · la Nova Hollandia (obsolete: Australia) · nl Nieuw-Holland (obsolete: Australia) · ja ニューホランド (obsolete: Australia) · haw Nuhōlani (obsolete: Australia) · es Nueva Holanda (obsolete: Australia) · et Uus-Holland (obsolete: Australia) · de Neuholland (obsolete: Australia) · rar Nū ʻŌrani (obsolete: Australia) · ota فلمنك جدید (obsolete: Australia)