botany bay
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
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Meaning
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A bay of New South Wales, south of Sydney Cove, Australia; the site of a landing by explorer Captain James Cook and later of the First Fleet, and originally planned to be the site of the first penal colony in Australia.
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The penal colony, actually established at Sydney Cove, which developed into the now city of Sydney.
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A former local government area in New South Wales (abolished 2016).
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Two bays in Antarctica.
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A place in the United Kingdom:
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A place in the United Kingdom:
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A place in the United Kingdom:
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Example Sentences
- ""Do you come from West Lynne?" / Yes. "Horrid place. Mrs. Latimer took a house there soon after I went to live with her. I'd rather she'd taken it at Botany Bay.""
- "If everybody got their deserts, Bulstrode might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay."
- "Christopher Coney was silenced, and as he could get no public sympathy, he mumbled his feelings to himself: "Be dazed, if I loved my country half as well as the young feller do, I'd live by claning my neighbour's pigsties afore I'd go away! For my part I've no more love for my country than I have for Botany Bay!""
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Botany Bay dozen
Botany Bay fever
Botany Bay greens
Botany Bay gum
Botany Bay kino
Botany Bay oak
Botany Bay olive
Botany Bay resin