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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 yən /

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

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

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

Etymology

Origin of Australian

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

Example Sentences

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Friday that Canberra was seeking "the maintenance of the global rules-based order" in the region.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

The Australian singer will be on stage at Kingsholm Stadium on 28 June as a support act for Sir Tom Jones, who has performed at the rugby ground twice before in 2012 and 2017.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Williams had reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open the previous year, and won her last Grand Slam singles title in Melbourne in 2017 at the age of 35.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Yet Sinner has only to reach back as far as this year’s Australian Open or last October’s Shanghai Masters for recent examples of his tendency to melt when temperatures spike.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

There are three pieces of evidence that weaken the climate alibi, and implicate our ancestors in the extinction of the Australian megafauna.

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