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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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One Australian with Kathmandu Holiday Tours & Travel was missing, according to the board.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

“We’re going to see these things everywhere,” said Mick Ryan, a military analyst and retired Australian Army major general.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Open, followed by the Australian Open in 1970 and Wimbledon in 1975.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Australian officials have said the ban is designed to protect children from online bullying and "predatory algorithms".

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

In our time, Professor Malcolm Macmillan, an Australian psychologist who is the world's leading expert on Phineas Gage, makes a massive effort to track down the story.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

Great Britain gave him the international recognition denied to him by Wales, and he rewarded the selectors by racking up the tries, particularly against the Australians who would bear the brunt of his scoring ability.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

The scheme put disabled Australians and their families at the heart of the decision-making.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Australians who faced a "Black Summer" blaze that scorched millions of hectares say they may have lessons for European countries hit by some of the fiercest fires in living memory.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

The research, published on July 23, followed nearly 2,800 Australians over four years as part of the National Climate Action Survey.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states.

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