Australian
English
Etymology
From Australia + -anCategory:English terms suffixed with -an#AUSTRALIAN.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian, Macquarie Dictionary) IPA(key): /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹeɪljən/Category:English 3-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English 3-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AUSTRALIAN
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.liː.ən/, /əˈstɹæɪl.jən/, /-ɹɛl-/, /-ɹejə/Category:English 3-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English 4-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English 3-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AUSTRALIAN
- (Tasmanian) IPA(key): /əˈstɹɛliːən/Category:English 4-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AUSTRALIAN
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.liː.ən/, /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.li.jən/Category:English 4-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English 4-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AUSTRALIAN
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#AUSTRALIANAudio (Southern England): (file) - (Received Pronunciation, dated) IPA(key): /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪən/, /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪjən/Category:English 3-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English 4-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AUSTRALIAN
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɔˈstɹeɪljən/Category:English 3-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AUSTRALIAN
- (cot–caught merger, US and Canadian dialects) IPA(key): /ɑˈstɹeɪljən/Category:English 3-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AUSTRALIAN
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.ljən/Category:English 3-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AUSTRALIAN
- Hyphenation: Aus‧tra‧lian
- (Received Pronunciation) Rhymes: -eɪliənCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪliən#AUSTRALIANCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪliən/4 syllables#AUSTRALIAN
- (General American) Rhymes: -eɪljənCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪljən#AUSTRALIANCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪljən/3 syllables#AUSTRALIAN
Noun
Australian (plural Australians)Category:English lemmas#AUSTRALIANCategory:English nouns#AUSTRALIANCategory:English countable nouns#AUSTRALIANCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AUSTRALIANCategory:Pages with entries#AUSTRALIANCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AUSTRALIAN
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#AUSTRALIAN
- 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, 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.Category:English terms with quotations#AUSTRALIAN
- A person from the continent of Australia.
- A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English).
Translations
Adjective
Australian (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#AUSTRALIANCategory:English adjectives#AUSTRALIANCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#AUSTRALIANCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AUSTRALIANCategory:Pages with entries#AUSTRALIANCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AUSTRALIAN
- 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:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#AUSTRALIAN
- (humorousCategory:English humorous terms#AUSTRALIAN, USCategory:American English#AUSTRALIAN) 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
- Anglo-Australian
- anti-Australianism
- as Australian as Vegemite
- Asian Australian
- Australiana
- Australian Aboriginal
- Australian Alps
- Australian Approved Name
- Australian as a kangaroo
- Australian as a meat pie
- Australian ballot
- Australian bear
- 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 cockroach
- Australian craneCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Australian%20crane (Antigone rubicundaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Antigone%20rubicunda, 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 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 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 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 tiger
- Australian warbler
- Australian water dragon
- 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
Translations
Proper noun
AustralianCategory:English lemmas#AUSTRALIANCategory:English proper nouns#AUSTRALIANCategory:English uncountable nouns#AUSTRALIANCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AUSTRALIANCategory:Pages with entries#AUSTRALIANCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AUSTRALIAN
- The Australian, an Australian newspaper.
Related terms
- Aussie (“an Australian (person)”, colloquial)
- austral
- Australia
- Australiana
- Australianism
See also
- Strine (“the Australian language”, colloquial)
- antipodean
Anagrams
Category:English proper adjectives#AUSTRALIANCategory:English terms suffixed with -ian#AUSTRALIAN Category:en:Demonyms#AUSTRALIANCategory:en:Nationalities#AUSTRALIANCategory:en:Newspapers#AUSTRALIANCategory:en:Australia#AUSTRALIANCategory:en:Australian demonyms#AUSTRALIANBasque
Proper noun
AustralianCategory:Basque non-lemma forms#AUSTRALIANCategory:Basque proper noun forms#AUSTRALIANCategory:Basque entries with incorrect language header#AUSTRALIANCategory:Pages with entries#AUSTRALIANCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AUSTRALIAN
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯strɑ(ː)liɑn/, [ˈɑ̝u̯s̠.trɑ̝(ː)ˌliɑ̝n]Category:Finnish 4-syllable words#AUSTRALIANCategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#AUSTRALIAN
- Rhymes: -iɑnCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/iɑn#AUSTRALIANCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/iɑn/4 syllables#AUSTRALIAN
- Syllabification(key): Aust‧ra‧li‧an
- Hyphenation(key): Aust‧ra‧li‧an
Proper noun
AustralianCategory:Finnish non-lemma forms#AUSTRALIANCategory:Finnish proper noun forms#AUSTRALIANCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#AUSTRALIANCategory:Pages with entries#AUSTRALIANCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AUSTRALIAN