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- Dictionarydown under/ˌdaʊn ˈʌndə/
adverb
- 1. in or to Australia or New Zealand: "take a flight down under in September"
noun
- 1. Australia and New Zealand: "a girl from down under"
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The term Down Under is a colloquialism differently construed to refer to Australia and New Zealand, or the Pacific island countries collectively. The term originally referred solely to Australia and gradually expanded in scope. It comes from the fact that Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, “below” almost all other countries on the usual arrangement of a map or globe which places cardinal nor... Wikipedia