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# australian

«australian» in Mova's school dictionary: **from or belonging to Australia, its people or its language** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Australian); noun (an Australian, Australians)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Australian means from or belonging to Australia, its people or its language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/#m1)

2) An Australian is a person from Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, Australia is a country and a continent in the Southern Hemisphere; its capital is Canberra, and its big cities include Sydney and Melbourne. Australian animals include kangaroos, koalas, wombats, emus and platypuses; many are marsupials found nowhere else. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the first Australians. Australian English has words like «arvo» (afternoon), «brekkie» (breakfast), «thongs» (flip-flops), «G'day» (hello) and «mate». Australian seasons are opposite to those in the UK and USA: Christmas is in summer. Phrases: «Australian animals», «Australian English», «the Australian outback», «an Aussie» (informal).

### examples

- Kangaroos are Australian animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/#x1)
- My friend is Australian; she comes from Perth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/#x2)
- Australians celebrate Christmas in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/#x3)
- Australian English says "arvo" for afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/#x4)
- The Australian flag has the Southern Cross on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/#x5)
- Many Australian animals are marsupials. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/#x6)
- Aboriginal Australians have lived there for tens of thousands of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/#x7)
- An Australian swimmer won the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/#x8)

### note

Always written with a capital A: «Australian». Informal: «Aussie» (pronounced «Ozzie»). Do not confuse with «Austrian» (from Austria in Europe, where there are no kangaroos).

### In the corpora

- [The didgeridoo comes from Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia, traditionally made from a branch hollowed by termites; skilled players use circular breathing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/10/)
- [The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to look bigger, then runs away on its back legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/17/)
- [More Australians are hurt by horses, cows and bees than by snakes or spiders.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die/16/)
- [And the Australian possum living in a roof is a different animal from the American opossum, though both carry their babies in pouches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/4/)
- [In Australian English "heaps" means lots or very, as in "heaps of dashes".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «australian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/australian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.