AUSTRALIAN

I. adjective Date: 1814 of, relating to, or characteristic of the continent or commonwealth of Australia, its inhabitants, or the languages spoken there, of, relating to, or being a biogeographic region that comprises Australia, the islands north of it from Celebes eastward, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Polynesia, II. noun Date: 1814 a native or inhabitant of the ~ commonwealth, a group of about 200 languages spoken by the aboriginal inhabitants of Australia