Australian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: General Australian, Macquarie Dictionary
ipa: /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/
note: General Australian, Macquarie Dictionary
ipa: /əˈstɹeɪljən/
ipa: /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/
ipa: /əˈstɹæɪ.liː.ən/
ipa: /əˈstɹæɪl.jən/
ipa: /-ɹɛl-/
ipa: /-ɹejə/
ipa: /əˈstɹɛliːən/
ipa: /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.liː.ən/
ipa: /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.li.jən/
ipa: /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪən/
ipa: /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪjən/
ipa: /ɔˈstɹeɪljən/
ipa: /ɑˈstɹeɪljən/
ipa: /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.ljən/
Etymology: From Australia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.
examples: text: Australian scrolling
translation: Google's name for a style of scrolling with a mousepad in which the flicking direction is inverted in comparison to the "standard" style
english: Google's name for a style of scrolling with a mousepad in which the flicking direction is inverted in comparison to the "standard" style
glosses: Upside down.
Derived terms: word: Anglo-Australian
word: anti-Australianism
word: as Australian as Vegemite
word: Asian Australian
word: Australiana
word: Australian Aboriginal
word: Australian Alps
word: Australian Approved Name
word: Australian as a kangaroo
word: Australian as a meat pie
word: Australian ballot
word: Australian bear
word: Australian bonito
word: Australian boobook
word: Australian bug
word: Australian bumblebee
word: Australian bush hat
word: Australian canary
word: Australian Capital Territory
word: Australian cattle dog
word: Australian Central Daylight Time
word: Australian cockroach
taxonomic: Antigone rubicunda
alt: syn. Grus rubicunda
word: Australian crane
word: Australian crawl
word: Australian crow
word: Australian dollar
word: Australian doubles
word: Australian Dream
word: Australian Eastern Daylight Time
word: Australian Eastern Standard Time
word: Australian emperor
word: Australian encephalitis
word: Australian English
word: Australianese
word: Australian football
word: Australian grayling
word: Australian green tree frog
word: Australianisation
word: Australianise
word: Australianism
word: Australianist
word: Australianization
word: Australianize
word: Australian kiss
word: Australian Kriol
word: Australian lime
word: Australian lungfish
word: Australianly
word: Australian magpie
word: Australian Mist
word: Australian mockingbird
word: Australian mulberry
word: Australianness
word: Australian ostrich
word: Australian painted snipe
word: Australian paralysis tick
word: Australian pelican
word: Australian Pidgin English
word: Australian pied imperial pigeon
word: Australian pitcher plant
word: Australian plague locust
word: Australian plainhead
word: Australian pratincole
word: Australian prowfish
word: Australian pull-up
word: Australian raven
word: Australian reed warbler
word: Australian rhyming slang
word: Australian rules
word: Australian rules football
word: Australian salmon
word: Australian salute
word: Australian Shepherd
word: Australian Sign Language
word: Australian spotted cuscus
word: Australian studies
word: Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog
word: Australian teak
word: Australian tiger
word: Australian warbler
word: Australian water dragon
word: Australian white ibis
word: Australian willow
word: Australian wood cockroach
word: Australian X disease
word: First Australian
word: Great Australian Bight
word: Indigenous Australian
word: new Australian
word: South Australian
word: un-Australian
word: unaustralian
word: West Australian pitcher plant
word: Western Australian
word: Western Australian pitcher plant