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Definition of Australian

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Australia or its inhabitants or its languages. "Australian aborigines"

2. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Australia.

3. Noun. The Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines.

Definition of Australian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Australia.

Definition of Australian

1. Noun. A person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent. ¹

2. Noun. A person from the continent of Australia. ¹

3. Noun. A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English). ¹

4. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Australian

Austin Flint Austin Flint murmur Austin Flint phenomenon Austin Friar Austin Friars AustralE Austral Islands Australasia Australasian Australasian pig-nose turtle

Australasian pig-nose turtles Australia Australia Day Australia Felix Australia antigen Australian Australian Aboriginal Australian Aborigine Australian Alps Australian Capital Territory

Australian Cattle Dog Australian Cattle Dogs Australian Desert Australian Eastern Standard Time Australian English Australian Mist Australian Mists Australian Q fever Australian Shepherd Australian Shepherds

Literary usage of Australian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"He sent a number of interesting letters to the ' Sydney Morning Herald,' which were subsequently published in London under the title 'australian Views of ..."

2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1904)
"LUSK (HM) The new australian constitution. How it resembles and how it differs ... PAPERS relating to the federation of the australian colonies, 1899-1900. ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"AN australian APPEAL TO THE ENGLISH DEMOCRACY. Tnu first difficulty which presents itself to an australian who would offer an opinion upon politics to ..."

4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1905)
"Most of this australian material, I am informed, was purchased from the estate of the actor, Henry Edwards, who at the time of his death in 1891 had one of ..."

5. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"All regions but australian Ethiopian, australian The Eastern Hemisphere australian All regions but Neotropical Cosmopolite Ethiopian, australian ..."

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