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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The islands of the southern, western, and central Pacific Ocean, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The term is sometimes extended to encompass Australia, New Zealand, and the Malay Archipelago.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A large group of islands in the south Pacific sometimes including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago.
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- proper noun A geographical
region composed of many islands (Melanesia ,Micronesia , andPolynesia ) plusAustralasia . It is located betweenAsia ,Antarctica andthe Americas .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
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Examples
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Oceania is a name for the groups of islands in the southern and central areas of which ocean?
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Miller, who just launched an ecologically sustainable foundation in Oceania as a global artist-in-residence program, is concerned about the world we live in.
Charles Fabius: Jean Cocteau Goes Multimedia at the Guggenheim Charles Fabius 2010
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Victory against Oceania is just around the corner ...
Think Progress » When All Else Fails, Start Fear Mongering 2005
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"Every day, the news from Iraq feels like splashes on the telescreens in Oceania," Thomas Meehan remarks, with a touch of fury in his voice.
Big Brother sings! 2005
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Oceania is already taking shape: essentially, the English-speaking world of North America, Britain ( "Airstrip One" in Orwell's novel), and Australasia.
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All aspects of life in Oceania are permeated with the principles of "Ingsoc," or English Socialism in Newspeak.
'Making Political Writing Into An Art' - Celebrating the Centenary of Orwell's Birth 2003
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We know, for instance, what he would think of the National Lottery, since one existed in Oceania: for the Proles, it was 'their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant'.
Orwell Now 1997
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'Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan in Oceania, 'controls the future: and who controls the present controls the past'.
Orwell Now 1997
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Nonetheless, such an interpretation does not quite fit: Ingsoc has been established in Oceania by internal revolution and not by military invasion or external pressure.
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The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.
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