Australian
See also: australian
English
[edit]Etymology
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From Australia + -an (suffix forming adjectives).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Where did the sense 'upside-down' come from?”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Australia, Macquarie Dictionary) IPA(key): /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹeɪljən/
- (Australia) IPA(key): /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.liː.ən/, /əˈstɹæɪl.jən/, /-ɹɛl-/, /-ɹejən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.liː.ən/, /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.li.jən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (Received Pronunciation, dated) IPA(key): /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪən/, /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪjən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɔˈstɹeɪljən/
- (cot–caught merger, US and Canadian dialects) IPA(key): /ɑˈstɹeɪljən/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.ljən/
- Hyphenation: Aus‧tra‧lian
- (Received Pronunciation) Rhymes: -eɪliən
- (General American) Rhymes: -eɪljən
Noun
[edit]Australian (plural Australians)
- A person from the Commonwealth of Australia.
- 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.
- (anthropology) A person aboriginal to Australia.
- (uncommon) A person from the continent of Australia.
- Australian English.
Translations
[edit]person from the country of Australia
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person from the continent of Australia
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Australian English
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Adjective
[edit]Australian (not comparable)
- 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.
- (humorous, US) Upside down.
Derived terms
[edit]- Anglo-Australian
- anti-Australianism
- as Australian as Vegemite
- Asian Australian
- Auslan
- Australiana
- Australian Aboriginal
- Australian Alps
- Australian Approved Name
- Australian as a kangaroo
- Australian as a meat pie
- Australian ballot
- Australian bear
- Australian bluebell
- Australian bonito
- Australian boobook
- Australian brushturkey
- Australian bug
- Australian bumblebee
- Australian bush hat
- Australian canary
- Australian Capital Territory
- Australian cattle dog
- Australian Central Daylight Time
- Australian Central Standard Time
- Australian cockroach
- Australian crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda)
- Australian crawl
- Australian crow
- Australian dollar
- Australian doubles
- Australian Dream
- Australian Eastern Daylight Time
- Australian Eastern Standard Time
- Australian emperor
- Australian encephalitis
- Australian English
- Australianese
- Australian finger lime
- Australian flame tree
- Australian football
- Australian grayling
- Australian green tree frog
- Australianisation
- Australianise
- Australianism
- Australianist
- Australianization
- Australianize
- Australian kiss
- Australian Kriol
- Australian lime
- Australian lungfish
- Australianly
- Australian magpie
- Australian mahogany
- Australian millet
- 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 plum
- Australian pratincole
- Australian prowfish
- Australian pull-up
- Australian raven
- Australian reed warbler
- Australian rhyming slang
- Australian rules
- Australian rules football
- Australian salmon
- Australian salute
- Australian Shepherd
- Australian Sign Language
- Australian soldier fly
- Australian spotted cuscus
- Australian studies
- Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog
- Australian teak
- Australian teddy bear
- Australian tiger
- Australian warbler
- Australian water dragon
- Australian Western Standard Time
- Australian white ibis
- Australian willow
- Australian wood cockroach
- Australian X disease
- First Australian
- Great Australian Bight
- Indigenous Australian
- new Australian
- South Australian
- un-Australian, unaustralian
- West Australian pitcher plant
- Western Australian
- Western Australian pitcher plant
- Westralian
Translations
[edit]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
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Proper noun
[edit]Australian
- The Australian, an Australian newspaper.
Related terms
[edit]- Aussie (“an Australian (person)”, colloquial)
- austral
- Australia
- Australiana
See also
[edit]- Strine (“the Australian language”, colloquial)
- antipodean
Anagrams
[edit]Basque
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Australian
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- 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
[edit]Australian
Categories:
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (grow)
- English terms suffixed with -an
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ews- (dawn)
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪliən
- Rhymes:English/eɪliən/4 syllables
- Rhymes:English/eɪljən
- Rhymes:English/eɪljən/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Anthropology
- English terms with uncommon senses
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English humorous terms
- American English
- English terms with collocations
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English proper adjectives
- English terms suffixed with -ian
- en:Demonyms
- en:Nationalities
- en:Newspapers
- en:Australia
- en:Australian demonyms
- Basque non-lemma forms
- Basque proper noun forms
- Finnish 4-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/iɑn
- Rhymes:Finnish/iɑn/4 syllables
- Finnish non-lemma forms
- Finnish proper noun forms
- Finnish terms with collocations