Australian
See also: australian
English
Pronunciation
- (General Australian, Macquarie Dictionary) IPA(key): /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹeɪljən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.liː.ən/, /əˈstɹæɪl.jən/, /-ɹɛl-/, /-ɹejə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɒˈstɹeɪ.liː.ən/, /ɒˈstɹeɪ.li.jən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (Received Pronunciation, dated) IPA(key): /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪən/, /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪjən/
- (Tasmanian) IPA(key): /əˈstɹɛliːən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɔˈstɹɛ.li.ən/, /ɔˈstɹɛl.jən/, /-ɹeɪ(l)-/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ɑˈstɹɛ.li.ən/, /ɑˈstɹɛl.jən/, /-ɹeɪ(l)-/
- Hyphenation: Aus‧tra‧lian
- Rhymes: -eɪliən
Noun
Australian (plural Australians)
- A person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 38:
- An Australian was once appointed on contract, but he swore too much.
- A person from the continent of Australia.
- A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English).
Translations
a person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent
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a person from the continent of Australia
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a language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English)
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Adjective
Australian (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.
- (humorous, US) Upside down.
Derived terms
- Anglo-Australian
- anti-Australianism
- Australiana
- Australian Aboriginal
- Australian Alps
- Australian Approved Name
- Australian as a kangaroo
- Australian as a meat pie
- Australian ballot
- Australian bear
- Australian bonito
- Australian bug
- Australian bumblebee
- Australian bush hat
- Australian canary
- Australian Capital Territory
- Australian cattle dog
- Australian cockroach
- Australian crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda)
- Australian crawl
- Australian crow
- Australian dollar
- Australian doubles
- Australian Dream
- Australian Eastern Standard Time
- Australian emperor
- Australian encephalitis
- Australian English
- Australianese
- Australian football
- Australian green tree frog
- Australianisation
- Australianise
- Australianism
- Australianist
- Australianization
- Australianize
- Australian kiss
- Australian Kriol
- Australian lime
- Australianly
- Australian magpie
- Australian Mist
- Australian mockingbird
- Australian mulberry
- Australianness
- Australian ostrich
- Australian painted snipe
- Australian paralysis tick
- Australian pelican
- Australian Pidgin English
- Australian pied imperial pigeon
- Australian pitcher plant
- Australian plague locust
- Australian plainhead
- Australian pratincole
- Australian pull-up
- Australian rhyming slang
- Australian rules
- Australian rules football
- Australian salmon
- Australian salute
- Australian Shepherd
- Australian Sign Language
- Australian studies
- Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog
- Australian tiger
- Australian warbler
- Australian water dragon
- Australian white ibis
- Australian willow
- Australian X disease
- First Australian
- Great Australian Bight
- new Australian
- South Australian
- unaustralian
- un-Australian
- West Australian pitcher plant
- Western Australian
- Western Australian pitcher plant
Translations
of or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or languages
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of or pertaining to the country of Australia
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of or pertaining to the continent of Australia
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of or pertaining to a person (people) of the country of Australia
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of or pertaining to a person (people) of the continent of Australia
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of or pertaining to a language (languages) of Australia (country or continent); Australian English
Related terms
- Aussie (“an Australian (person)”, colloquial)
- austral
- Australia
- Australiana
- Australianism
See also
- Strine (“the Australian language”, colloquial)
- antipodean
Anagrams
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯strɑ(ː)liɑn/, [ˈɑ̝u̯s̠trɑ̝(ː)ˌliɑ̝n]
- Rhymes: -iɑn
- Syllabification(key): Aust‧ra‧li‧an
Proper noun
Australian
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- Australian pääkaupunkiterritorio ― Australian Capital Territory
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