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Australian

Australian \Aus*tra"li*an\, a. [From L. Terra Australis southern land.] Of or pertaining to Australia. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Australia.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Australian

1690s, in reference to aboriginal inhabitants, from Australia + -an. As an adjective by 1814. Australianism in speech is attested from 1891.

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australian

a. Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages. n. 1 A person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent. 2 A person from the continent of Australia. 3 A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English).

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Australian (disambiguation)

Australian(s) may refer to:

  • Something of, from, or related to the Commonwealth of Australia
    • Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia
    • European Australian
    • Asian Australian
    • Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law
  • Something of, from, or related to the continent of Australia
    • Indigenous Australians
  • Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia
  • Indigenous Australian languages
  • The Australian, a newspaper
  • Australian, British Columbia, a town in Canada
  • Australiana

Usage examples of "australian".

There was a curious application of English aestheticism to the rude arrangements and homemade furniture of the Australian bush.

She seemed a true incarnation of the spirit of these Australian wilds, which, had they been invested with European romance, would have left his sensuous aestheticism nothing to desire.

Australian, the Canadian of English blood, the Virginian, and the English Africander, as incomprehensible and unsympathetic one to another as Spaniard and Englishman or Frenchman and German are now.

Other colonies joined in the festivities, the loyal Canadians vieing with the free-hearted Australians, the semi-bronzed Africanders and the planters of the West Indies, in the celebration of the joyous anniversary year.

This conclusion is suggested first of all by the practice of the Arunta and other Central Australian tribes, who observe very similar ceremonies with the avowed intention of thereby multiplying the totemic animals and plants in order that they may be eaten by the tribe, though not by the particular clan which has these animals or plants for its totem.

American, Australian, and South African-born Ashkenazi Jews and relatively poor Moroccan Oriental Jews.

These portolanos or sailing charts are of great interest to the Australasian student, not only because they depict for the first time the Molucca Islands, but also because Java, Bali, Lomboc and Sumbawa are set down on them as distinct and separate islands, whereas on a class of maps a little later in date, on which the Australian Continent is represented, some of those islands are indicated as forming part of the northern shores of Australia.

Australian backblocks racehorse is the gentleman adventurer of the turf family.

At Beira, a Portuguese port through which we have treaty rights by which we may pass troops, a curious mixed force of Australians, New Zealanders and others was being disembarked and pushed through to Rhodesia, so as to cut off any trek which the Boers might make in that direction.

On February 6 Benghazi was entered, three weeks ahead of the expected date, by the 6th Australian Division.

Clever writers about the Reds of the West have told how they rode, and how they ambushed, and of their relentlessness, but not one story shows that they had the bushcraft the equal of that of the Australian aborigine.

The staccato concatenated barks of coyotes, the lonely mourn of bloodthirsty wolves, the roo-roo-rooooo of mating buffalo, the stamping, yelling war dance of the Indians--were hardly to be compared to this Australian bushland chant.

Dan selected an Australian chardonnay, which was brought to the table by the bartender in short order.

Dauphin and similar charts wherein the Australian coasts are so remarkably well delineated, we have now to mention in connection with the present globe some of its most curious and extraordinary features--features which will show that the Dauphin and similar charts were not entirely due to Portuguese and Spanish surveys.

West Australian coasts and connected with the duplicate Malay Peninsula on earlier charts, is now separated from the continental bogus prolongation and assumes a greater likeness to the real Sumatra, although retaining its erroneous position, its southern parts being traversed by the tropic of Capricorn.