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AUSSIE

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AUSSIE (noun)
  The noun AUSSIE has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Australiaplay

  Familiarity information: AUSSIE used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


AUSSIE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Aussie; Australian

Hypernyms ("Aussie" is a kind of...):

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Aussie"):

Aborigine; Australian Aborigine; native Australian (a member of the people living in Australia when Europeans arrived)

Holonyms ("Aussie" is a member of...):

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)


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