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• Australian
  Australian

  adjective

  of or relating to Australia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
• australian
  australian

  noun

  a native or inhabitant of Australia

Australian

American  

[aw-streyl-yuhn] / ɔˈstreɪl jən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Australia, its inhabitants, or their languages.

2. Zoogeography. belonging to a geographical division comprising Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Papua New Guinea, and adjacent smaller islands.

3. Phytogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Australia and Tasmania.

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noun

• Australians
  plural

1. a native or inhabitant of Australia.

2. an Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia.

3. Also called Australian Aboriginal languages.  the group of languages of the Aborigines of Australia, consisting of about three hundred languages. Austral, Austral.

australian British  

/ ɒˈstreɪlɪən /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Australia

2. the form of English spoken in Australia

3. a linguistic phylum consisting of the languages spoken by the native Australians

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adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Australia, the Australians, or their form of English

2. of, relating to, or belonging to the phylum of languages spoken by the native Australians

3. of or denoting a zoogeographical region consisting of Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, New Guinea, and the Moluccas

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• anti-Australian
  adjective
• pro-Australian
  adjective
• pseudo-Australian
  adjective
• trans-Australian
  adjective
• un-Australian
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Australians
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Australian

First recorded in 1690–70 Australian for def. 5; Australi(a) + -an

Example Sentences

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The father of two Australian surfers killed in Mexico two years ago testified in court Tuesday that his life had been turned into hell, as the high-profile trial continued into its second day.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The Australian dollar fell 0.6% to ¥110.80 and the euro dropped 0.4% to ¥178.62.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

On our way back down, an Australian tourist strayed from the path toward a tunnel entrance.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Australian punter Jack Bouwmeester has an international player exemption.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Food chains throughout the entire Australian ecosystem were broken and rearranged.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

I'm watching the men's high jump and theres an australian athlete called Brandon Starc.

From Time ● Aug. 15, 2016

Even the australian open website's scoreboard is down.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2010

Cant sleep so im loving the australian open coverage.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2010

For more information visit www.ferrarapan.com As any australian diplomat will admit, managing the bilateral relationship with China is a relentless, high- energy task.

From Time Magazine Archive

To his credit, Hauser has devoted a lot of his time at the RBA to meeting Australians in all walks of life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"This will give Australians greater choice over their platforms and what they see," Albanese said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

"We want to give Australians more choice over what they see on their social media feeds," Wells told the ABC on Monday.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians have hunted these majestic animals for food.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

While Aboriginal Australians and many Native Americans remained hunter-gatherers, most of Eurasia and much of the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa gradually developed agriculture, herding, metallurgy, and complex political organization.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond