Australian

noun

1. 1

   A person from the Commonwealth of Australia.

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

   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. 2

   A person aboriginal to Australia.

3. 3

   A person from the continent of Australia.

4. 4

   Australian English.

adjective

1. 1

   Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.

   The deaths of two Australian teenagers, a British woman, an American man and two Danish women – and reports of others taken ill – prompted warnings last week from several Western nations about the potentially fatal consequences of drinking tainted alcohol in Laos.

2. 2

   Upside down.

   Australian scrolling

proper noun

1. 1

   The Australian, an Australian newspaper.

Forms

plural

Australians