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jmdict 1949330 Active (id: 1977995)
大洋州 [news2,nf40]
たいようしゅう [news2,nf40]
1. [n]
▶ Oceania
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 1034380 オセアニア 1. Oceania
  ⇐ see: 2259570 太平州【たいへいしゅう】 1. Oceania



History:
2. A 2018-05-03 05:41:11  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania
  Comments:
I don't particularly like it. As a resident of "Oceania" I can assure you that most of my country-people don't use (or even know) the term. Try telling someone living in Alice Springs, several thousand km from the sea, that they live in "Oceania". I'd never heard the term until my first trip to Japan in 1981, and Japanese business people I spoke to started using it and were surprised to learn it was a local construction (unless you read Orwell.)
1. A* 2018-05-02 18:28:25  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5, daij, koj
  Comments:
All the refs redirect to オセアニア. I don't think we need that second gloss.
  Diff:
@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1034380">オセアニア</xref>
@@ -17 +17,0 @@
-<gloss>Pacific Ocean countries</gloss>

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