Australian

From Australia +‎ -an.

• (General Australian, Macquarie Dictionary) IPA^(key): /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹeɪljən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.liː.ən/, /əˈstɹæɪl.jən/, /-ɹɛl-/, /-ɹejə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒˈstɹeɪ.liː.ən/, /ɒˈstɹeɪ.li.jən/

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• (Received Pronunciation, dated) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪən/, /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪjən/
• (Tasmanian) IPA^(key): /əˈstɹɛliːən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔˈstɹeɪl.jən/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɑˈstɹeɪl.jən/
• Hyphenation: Aus‧tra‧lian
• (Received Pronunciation) Rhymes: -eɪliən
• (General American) Rhymes: -eɪljən

Australian (plural Australians)

1. A person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 38:

     An Australian was once appointed on contract, but he swore too much.

   • 2013 August 26, Oliver Milman, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson calls for free labour exchange between UK and Australia”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 August 2019:

     It is outrageous and indefensible that Sally Roycroft is deprived of a freedom that we legally confer on every French person. It is time she was given a fair suck of the sauce bottle, as the Australians say.

2. A person from the continent of Australia.
3. A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English).

Australian (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.
2. (humorous, US) Upside down.

   Australian scrolling

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Australian

1. The Australian, an Australian newspaper.

• Strine (“the Australian language”, colloquial)
• antipodean

• Saturnalia, saturnalia

Australian

1. inessive indefinite of Australia

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯strɑ(ː)liɑn/,
• Rhymes: -iɑn
• Hyphenation^(key): Aust‧ra‧li‧an

Australian

1. genitive singular of Australia

   Australian pääkaupunkiterritorio ― Australian Capital Territory