- of Australia or its people
- designating or of the biogeographic realm that includes Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea
a person born or living in Australia
Australian
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Australian
adjective
- Of or relating to Australia or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
- Of or relating to the Australasian biogeographic region.
noun
- A native or inhabitant of Australia.
- A member of any of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
- Any of the languages of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
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Noun
(plural Australians)
Adjective
(not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.
Anagrams
Origin
Australia + -an
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Sentence Examples
- There are no mountains behind the Great Australian Bight.
- Cambrian rocks occur in each of these districts, and they are best developed in the South Australian high= lands, where they include a long belt of contemporary glacial deposits.
- Another point agreed upon is that the Australian flora is one of vast antiquity.
- Of those peculiar to Australian waters may be mentioned the arripis, represented by what is called among the colonists a salmon trout.
- A narrow Cambrian sea must have extended across central Australia from the Kimberley Goldfield in the north-west, through Tempe Downs and the Macdonnell chain in central Australia, to the South Australian highlands, central Victoria at Mansfield, and northern Tasmania.
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