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What is the difference between australian and australia?

australian | australia |

Australia is a derived term of australian.

Australia is a related term of australian.



As a noun Australian

is a person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent.

As an adjective Australian

is of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.

As a proper noun Australia is

a country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.

australian

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent.
  • A person from the continent of Australia.
  • A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English).
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.
  • Derived terms

    * Australian dollar

    See also

    * Strine - (colloquial - the Australian language)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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 *