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• AUSSIE (noun)
The noun AUSSIE has 1 sense:
1. a native or inhabitant of Australia
Familiarity information: AUSSIE used as a noun is very rare.
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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