austral
adjective
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austral
1 American
[aw-struhl]
/ ˈɔ strəl /
austral
2
American
[aus-trahl]
/ aʊsˈtrɑl /
noun
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australes
plural
Austral
3
American
abbreviation
Austral.
4
American
abbreviation
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Australasia.
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Australia.
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Australian.
austral
1
British
/ aʊˈstrɑːl /
noun
Austral.
2
British
abbreviation
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Australasia
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Australia(n)
austral
3
British
/ ˈɔːstrəl /
adjective
austral
Scientific
/ ô′strəl /
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of austral1
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin austrālis southern, equivalent to Aust ( e ) r Auster + -ālis -al 1
Origin of austral2
From Spanish; see origin at austral 1
Explanation
Anything austral refers to the south. An austral wind is a southern wind. This word has to do with direction. One of the most southern countries in the world is Australia, which might help you remember the meaning of austral: from the south or related to the south. Often, this word has to do with austral wind, which comes from the south. You could talk about the austral (southern) migration of birds.
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Over the course of the austral summer, the floating ice tongue steadily broke apart through repeated calving events, leading to a retreat of roughly 16 kilometers.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
And they hope to keep at it from October to mid-January, the height of the austral summer, for 3 years running.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 13, 2023
Tomine is a devotee of fishing the austral summer in South America’s Patagonia, from which he had just returned when he spoke to The Seattle Times in early April.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
Though we were south of the Antarctic Circle, it was mid-January, late in the austral summer, and we were lucky to have found this several-miles-wide expanse of shore-fastened ice.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022
You will be able to do the same thing, moreover, with both the austral and the boreal part of the stone in all these experiments.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
The findings describing the species and its conservation outlook were published in the journal Austral Ecology.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
He; Guillermo D'Elía, a systematist and mammalogist at the Austral University of Chile; and other South American colleagues went on their first 3-week expedition in 2020.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 23, 2023
Fonseca and McDowell discuss their continuous working relationship, the creative process of translation itself, and their latest collaboration on the book Austral.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2023
She got an MBA from Austral University in Buenos Aires and accreditation from the International Coaching Federation, a Kentucky-based nonprofit that has trained thousands of coaches in many fields.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
He had discovered New Caledonia, and surveyed the islands of the New Hebrides, and other islands in the Austral Ocean.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston
They typically convert their currency -- pesos, cruzados or australes -- into U.S. dollars, because they are a better store of value.
From Time Magazine Archive
The aurora borealia, or rather, the polar aurora,—for there are aurorae australes as well as aurorae boreales,—has been an object of wonder and admiration from time immemorial.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various
At the solicitation of his friend Buffon, he undertook his Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, which was published in 1756, in two vols. 4to, with maps.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
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