australianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General Australian, Macquarie Dictionary) IPA: /ɒˈstɹeɪljən/, /əˈstɹeɪljən/
• (General Australian) IPA: /əˈstɹæɪ.ljən/, /əˈstɹæɪ.liː.ən/, /əˈstɹæɪl.jən/, /-ɹɛl-/, /-ɹejə/
  • (Tasmanian) IPA: /əˈstɹɛliːən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.liː.ən/, /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.li.jən/
  • (Received Pronunciation, dated) IPA: /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪən/, /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪjən/
• (General American) IPA: /ɔˈstɹeɪljən/
  • (cot–caught merger, 米国発音 and Canadian dialects) IPA: /ɑˈstɹeɪljən/
• (Canada) IPA: /ɒsˈtɹeɪ.ljən/
• ハイフネーション: Aus‧tra‧lian
• (Received Pronunciation) 韻: -eɪliən
• (General American) 韻: -eɪljən

名詞

Australian (plural Australians)

1. A person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 38:

     An Australian was once appointed on contract, but he swore too much.

   • 2013 August 26, Oliver Milman, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson calls for free labour exchange between UK and Australia”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 August 2019:

     It is outrageous and indefensible that Sally Roycroft is deprived of a freedom that we legally confer on every French person. It is time she was given a fair suck of the sauce bottle, as the Australians say.

2. A person from the continent of Australia.
3. A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English).

形容詞

Australian (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.
   • 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN‎:

     The deaths of two Australian teenagers, a British woman, an American man and two Danish women – and reports of others taken ill – prompted warnings last week from several Western nations about the potentially fatal consequences of drinking tainted alcohol in Laos.

2. (humorous, US) Upside down.

   Australian scrolling

   Google's name for a style of scrolling with a mousepad in which the flicking direction is inverted in comparison to the "standard" style

派生語

固有名詞

Australian

1. The Australian, an Australian newspaper.

関連する語

参考

• Strine (“the Australian language”, colloquial)
• antipodean

アナグラム

• Saturnalia, saturnalia