Pronunciation
- (AU, Macquarie Dictionary) IPA: /ɒˈstɹeɪljə/, /əˈstɹeɪljə/
- (AU) IPA: /əˈstɹæɪljə/, /əˈstɹæɪliːə/, /əˈstɹæɪjə/
- (Tasmanian) IPA: /əˈstɹɛliːə/
- (RP) IPA: /ɒˈstɹeɪliːə/, /ɒˈstɹeɪlijə/
- (RP, dated) IPA: /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪə/, /ɔːˈstɹeɪlɪjə/
- (America) IPA: /ɔˈstɹeɪliə/, /ɔˈstɹeɪljə/
- (cot-caught, Canada) IPA: /ɑˈstɹeɪliə/, /ɑˈstɹeɪljə/
A country in Oceania, official=Commonwealth of Australia. - 1693: translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of Gabriel de Foigny) 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.
- 1693: translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of Gabriel de Foigny) 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.
(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.
- (country) Aussie (colloquial), Aussieland (colloquial), land down under, New Holland (historical), Oz (colloquial), Terra Australis (historical), Upsidedownland (colloquial)
- (continent) Meganesia, Sahul
- Austria
- Austrasie
- French: Australie
- German: Australien
- Italian: Australia
- Portuguese: Austrália
- Russian: Австра́лия
- Spanish: Australia
- French: Australie
- German: Australien
- Portuguese: Austrália
- Russian: Австра́лия
- Spanish: Australia
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