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Australian

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of Australia or its inhabitants or its languages. "Australian aborigines"

noun

A native or inhabitant of Australia. Synonym: Aussie.

The Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines. Synonym: Aboriginal Australian.

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"Australian" Quotes from Famous Books

... comes oft that finer sense which renders visible bright gleams of humour, pathos, and romance, which, like undiscovered gold, await the fortunate adventurer. That the author has touched this treasure-trove, not less delicately than distinctly, no true Australian will deny. In my opinion this collection comprises the best bush ballads written since the ...

— The Man from Snowy River • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson

... v The Australian boomerang is much larger than the Egyptian one; it is about a yard in length, two inches in width, and three sixteenths of an inch in thickness. For the manner of handling it, and what can be done with it, see Lubbock, Prehistoric ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... picked up the Australian cruiser Sydney, sir. I gave him our identity and Captain Glossop pays his ...

— The Boy Allies Under Two Flags • Ensign Robert L. Drake

... almost anything while on a mystery-hunt, and I accordingly kept my mouth closed. Billie Budd had his hat knocked off by a low-hanging limb of a tree that we passed under, and he let out a few choice Australian cuss-words that he had learned at the Ballarat gold mines, as he scowled at Hemlock Holmes, the author of this unaccountable promenade in ...

— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry

... resolutely, and her face was resolute also; its young lines were for the moment almost grim. She stood in the doorway of the stable, watching her brother rub down the animal he had just been riding. Behind her the rays of the Australian sun smote almost level, making of her fair hair a dazzling aureole of gold. The lashes of her blue eyes were tipped with gold also, but the brows above them were delicately dark. They were slightly drawn just ...

— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

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