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Australian

  1. of, about, or relating to Australia and its inhabitants
L1500184 on Wikidata ↗

proper noun

  1. person from Australia
  2. dialect of English
L35279 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/ / /əˈstɹeɪljən/ / /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/

adj

Etymology: From Australia + -an.

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.

    The deaths of two Australian teenagers, a British woman, an American man and two Danish women – and reports of others taken ill – prompted warnings last week from several Western nations about the potentially fatal consequences of drinking tainted alcohol in Laos.

  2. Upside down.

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name

Etymology: From Australia + -an.

  1. The Australian, an Australian newspaper.

noun

Etymology: From Australia + -an.

  1. A person from the Commonwealth of Australia.

    An Australian was once appointed on contract, but he swore too much.

    It is outrageous and indefensible that Sally Roycroft is deprived of a freedom that we legally confer on every French person. It is time she was given a fair suck of the sauce bottle, as the Australians say.

  2. A person aboriginal to Australia.
  3. A person from the continent of Australia.
  4. Australian English.