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Definition of Australian adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Australian

adjective

/ɒˈstreɪliən/

/ɔːˈstreɪliən/

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of or connected with Australia
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Australian is used with these nouns:
bush
continent
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Word Originfrom French australien, from Latin australis in the phrase Terra Australis ‘the southern land’, the name of the supposed southern continent.

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