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australia

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.
  • * 1693 : translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of ) titled Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe'' published 1692, translation published in London in 1693. Quoted in ''The Australian Language by Sidney J. Baker, second edition, 1966, chapter XIX, section 1, pages 388-9.
  • This is all that I can have a certain knowledge of as to that side of Australia ...
  • * 1814 , (Matthew Flinders), A Voyage to Terra Australis , volume 1 ( at Project Gutenberg)
  • Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA ; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
  • (geology) The continent of Australia-New Guinea. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.
  • Synonyms

    * (country) Aussieland (colloquial), land down under, New Holland (historial), Oz (colloquial), Terra Australis (historical) * (continent) Meganesia, Sahul

    Hypernyms

    * Antipodes

    Derived terms

    * Aussie * Australasia * Australia Day * Australia Felix * Australian * Australianism * Eastralia * Order of Australia * Westralia

    See also

    * * AU * Aust *

    goori

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An Australian aboriginal person."Goori" in Tamsin Donaldson, "Glossary", in Julie Janson, Black Mary and Gunjies: two plays , Aboriginal Studies Press (1996), ISBN 0855752920, page 157: "(Aboriginal) person (north coast languages including Kattang), also used to distinguish Aboriginal people from this area."
  • * 1991, Joshua Aaron Fishman Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages , Multilingual Matters, ISBN 1853591211, page 279,
  • The availability and spread of an indigenous aggregative term for all Aborigines (Gooris'/Kooris) is suggestive of a growing intergroup identity among them, over and above former and current ethnolinguistic demarcations. The term ' Goori /Kuri itself stems from the Southeastern coastal area, some 300 miles north of Sydney. Wurm and Hattori list ‘7?’ speakers for Kuri and ‘9??’ for the Yuin-Kuric grouping (10 dialects, all but three of which are extinct).
  • * 1996, Julie Janson, Gunjies'', Act 2, Scene 3, in ''Black Mary and Gunjies: two plays , Aboriginal Studies Press, ISBN 0855752920, page 131,
  • JUNE: […] It’s born in you, your identity, I never lost mine. Goori spirituality, it’s always there. I was born with somethin’ …
  • * 2002, John Henderson and David Nash, Language in Native Title , Aboriginal Studies Press, ISBN 0855753889, page 49,
  • While I do not have a lot of faith in the native title legislation's ability to deliver the goods for dispossessed and dislocated Goori communities like ours on the eastern seaboard, I am interested in how the process regards our languages in relation to claim hearings and judgements.
  • * 2006, Joshua Aaron Fishman, Nancy H. Hornberger, and Martin Pütz, Language Loyalty, Language Planning and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman , Multilingual Matters, ISBN 185359900X, page 144,
  • Thus, a brochure inviting Gooris (more usually ‘Kooris’, an increasingly popular indigenous self-designation applying to and uniting all Aborigines and favored by some as a collective term to replace Aborine/Aboriginal) to participate in a series of six weekly seminars about Bundjalung, a language of Southeast Australia that is now down to its last few speakers, […]

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