What does "oceanian" mean?

Someone from Oceania (geographical region or continent).

What is a synonym for "oceanian"?

Common synonyms include: australasian, australasian.

adj, noun

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Noun

1
Someone from Oceania (geographical region or continent).
2
Someone from the fictional nation of Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
"In order to ensure that the Oceanians do get excited about Big Brother—displace, that is, eroticism from its natural object, another individual, to the State—the Party attempts in every way “to remove all pleasure from the sex act. . . . The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting operation, like having an enema” (p. 57)."

Adjective

1
From or relating to Oceania (geographical region or continent). not-comparable
2
From or relating to the fictional nation of Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). not-comparable
"Although the proles are on the fringe both of Oceanian society and of the action, it is their values which provide the only warmth in the novel."

"There were a lot of Oceanian teachers at the English conversation school I went to previously."

From Oceania + -an. (nation): This term is not used in the novel itself.

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