English Explanatory Dictionary

Southern Cross

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross, which appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.
  2. The constellation as a symbol of Australia, New Zealand and various other places in the Southern Hemisphere.
name
  1. A place in Australia:
  2. A rural locality in Charters Towers Region, northern Queensland.
  3. A locality in the Shire of Moyne, south-west Victoria.
  4. A town in the Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia.

Pronunciation

/ˌsʌðə(ɹ)n ˈkɹɒs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Typheuss-Southern_Cross.wav

Word forms

Southern Cross the Southern Cross

Synonyms

Crux

Related words

Northern Cross

Translations

Afrikaans: Suiderkruis Arabic: صَلِيب اَلْجَنُوب Bulgarian: южен кръст Catalan: Creu del Sud Chinese Mandarin: 南十字座 Chinese Mandarin: 南十字星 Danish: Sydkorset Dutch: Zuiderkruis Finnish: Etelän risti French: Croix du Sud Galician: Cruz do Sur German: Kreuz des Südens Greek: Σταυρός του Νότου Hindi: त्रिशंकु Hungarian: Dél Keresztje Irish: an Chros Irish: Cros an Deiscirt Italian: Croce del Sud Japanese: 南十字星 Japanese: みなみじゅうじ座 Kazakh: Оңтүстік Крест Korean: 남십자성 Korean: 남십자(南十字)자리 Malay: bintang pari Malay: bintang tohok Malay: palang selatan Māori: Te Punga Māori: Te Taki-o-Autahi Māori: Māhutonga Mokilese: lohpwu Old Tupi: Krusá Polish: Krzyż Południa Portuguese: Cruzeiro do Sul Russian: Ю́жный Крест Spanish: Crux Spanish: Cruz del Sur Tagalog: Timugang Paripa Tagalog: Kamaliing Vietnamese: Nam Thập Tự Vietnamese: Nam Tào Vietnamese: Chữ Thập Phương Nam Vietnamese: Nam Thập
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