Australian
- of, about, or relating to Australia and its inhabitants
proper noun
- person from Australia
- dialect of English
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/ / /əˈstɹeɪljən/ / /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/
adj
Etymology: From Australia + -an.
- 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.”
- Upside down.
“Australian scrolling”
name
Etymology: From Australia + -an.
- The Australian, an Australian newspaper.
noun
Etymology: From Australia + -an.
- 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.”
- A person aboriginal to Australia.
- A person from the continent of Australia.
- Australian English.