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AUSTRALIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines
Synonyms:
Aboriginal Australian; Australian
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Australian" is a kind of...):
Austronesian; Austronesian language (the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia)
Domain region:
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Australian"):
Dyirbal; Jirrbal; Walbiri; Warlpiri (a language of Australian aborigines)
Derivation:
Australian (of or relating to or characteristic of Australia or its inhabitants or its languages)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Australia
Synonyms:
Aussie; Australian
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Australian" is a kind of...):
denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Australian"):
Aborigine; Australian Aborigine; native Australian (a member of the people living in Australia when Europeans arrived)
Holonyms ("Australian" is a member of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Derivation:
Australian (of or relating to or characteristic of Australia or its inhabitants or its languages)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of Australia or its inhabitants or its languages
Example:
Australian aborigines
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
Derivation:
Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Australian (the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines)
Australian (a native or inhabitant of Australia)
Context examples:
Tasmanian devils are marsupial carnivores endemic to the Australian island of Tasmania.
(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)
"European, US, Australian, Japanese, etc. shows a forecast skill for predicting some of these events at a two-week timescale. However, there is a huge scope for improvement," McPhaden adds.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And there's another fellow—Parry—an Australian, a statistician and a sporting encyclopaedia.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The study, by health economics researcher Dr Redzo Mujcic from UQ’s School of Pharmacy, involved more than 12,000 Australian adults.
(Fruit and veggies pave the road to happiness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The Australian team describes the membrane technology that separates hydrogen from other gases as a “watershed moment for energy.”
(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)
A natural alkaloid with an acridine structure isolated from the bark of the plant Acronychia baueri (Australian scrub ash) with antineoplastic properties.
(Acronine, NCI Thesaurus)
On 6 January, the Chilean Meteorological Directorate announced the presence of smoke whose effect was seen in the sun with red tones (…) the product of a cloud of smoke coming from the Australian fires.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
Shall I ever recall that street of Canterbury on a market-day, without recalling him, as he walked back with us; expressing, in the hardy roving manner he assumed, the unsettled habits of a temporary sojourner in the land; and looking at the bullocks, as they came by, with the eye of an Australian farmer!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
