Australian

See also: australian

English

Etymology

From Australia +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

Noun

Australian (plural Australians)

  1. 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.
    • 2013 August 26, Oliver Milman, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson calls for free labour exchange between UK and Australia”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 August 2019:
      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 from the continent of Australia.
  3. A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English).

Translations

Adjective

Australian (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.
    • 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN‎[2]:
      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. (humorous, US) Upside down.
    Australian scrolling
    Google's name for a style of scrolling with a mousepad in which the flicking direction is inverted in comparison to the "standard" style

Derived terms

Translations

Proper noun

Australian

  1. The Australian, an Australian newspaper.

See also

Anagrams

Basque

Proper noun

Australian

  1. inessive indefinite of Australia

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯strɑ(ː)liɑn/, [ˈɑ̝u̯s̠.trɑ̝(ː)ˌliɑ̝n]
  • Rhymes: -iɑn
  • Syllabification(key): Aust‧ra‧li‧an
  • Hyphenation(key): Aust‧ra‧li‧an

Proper noun

Australian

  1. genitive singular of Australia
    Australian pääkaupunkiterritorio ― Australian Capital Territory
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