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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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Along with Hesson coming in as head coach, Australian Ashley Noffke has been added to the backroom staff as a replacement for fast-bowling coach Umar Gul.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

It has a buy rating and target price of 6.45 Australian dollars a share on Kingsgate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Australian tunnel rescue expert Arnold Dix, who is advising Nepali teams, said the operation presented an unprecedented challenge.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Craig Tiley, who took over the organization in July after two decades helping transform the Australian Open into an entertainment festival, said in a pre-tournament news conference he wants the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Right behind Moch came the rest of the Washington boys, and behind them, just for the hell of it, the entire Australian team.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

"A lot of Australians appreciate the algorithm, both for the enjoyment they get out of it or the utility they get out of it," Communications Minister Anika Wells told national broadcaster ABC.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Australians would be able to switch off social media algorithms under draft legislation to be proposed this week.

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

Remember less than 4% of Australians are deficient in vitamin C.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

But the Australians allowed only one family member to enter the country initially.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren