[
US
/ɔˈstɹeɪɫjən/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to or characteristic of Australia or its inhabitants or its languages
Australian aborigines
Australian deserts
NOUN
- a native or inhabitant of Australia
- the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines
How To Use Australian In A Sentence
- In the final match, Lara scored yet another hundred but this was so frantic and frenzied that it could not stop the Australians from winning the match and squaring the series.
- Industry research firm Watson Wyatt estimates Australian companies face a combined shortfall of as much as A$25 billion in these defined-benefit pension plans, known as superannuation in Australia. Australian Firms to Pay Scarce Cash for Pensions
- The recent Australian National Championships and Olympic swimming trials give a strange story to the world of swimming.
- Minister for Defence Robert Hill talks with an Australian Army captain and warrant officer at a Middle East base.
- The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is responsible for internal security, for counter-espionage, for counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism.
- ‘We have to win,’ the Scotland coach affirms with a bluffness which only Australians can pull off.
- Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching. 2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review
- The Australian was interested in Iroquois Falls because the Paper Company owns the whole town; they have made the streets and the municipality, and the stores, and they were good enough to rent premises to Dr. Monteith for his liquor store, to make some revenue. Northern Ontario
- *** Pharmaceuticals Sigma Pharmaceuticals said that it is likely to breach loan conditions with bankers after taking a charge of as much as 270 million Australian dollars ($253.4 million) from the A$900 million fire sale of its pharmaceutical division to South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare. Business Watch
- Of the Australian clip, 37 per cent is sold into the Chinese market.