the First Fleet
noun [S, + sing/pl verb] Australian EnglishDefinition
› the ships that brought the first Europeans to AustraliaRenaissance: 1501 to 1899
(Definition of the First Fleet noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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