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Australia vs Whitefeller - What's the difference?

australia | whitefeller |

As nouns the difference between australia and whitefeller

is that australia is australian while whitefeller is (australia) a white settler in australia; a non-aboriginal australian; often used attributively .

As an adjective australia

is australian.

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 *

    whitefeller

    English

    Alternative forms

    * whitefella

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively .
  • In native title matters, there is a lot of talk about litigation, mediation, negotiation and questions about whitefeller law.
  • * 1959 , , Yandy , page 11,
  • The whitefellers' did not let anyone but ' whitefellers learn their ways properly, he knew that now.
  • * 1992 , , The Feather and the Stone , 2011, unnumbered page,
  • ‘No use,’ some friends said, miserably. ‘We can?t take them down until sunset, that is whitefeller law.’
  • * 2010 , Adrian Hyland, Gunshot Road , page 4,
  • In the distance the whitefeller lights of Bluebush cast an ugly orange pallor into the sky.
    Gypsy was a Kantulyu woman, grown to adulthood in the desert out west. Hadn?t seen a whitefeller until she was in her twenties.

    Coordinate terms

    * blackfeller