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Australian English

Australian English proper noun: the form of the English language used in Australia.

Proper noun

Australian English

  1. The form of the English language used in Australia.
    • Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 295

Australian English meaning in Arabic

Australian English in Arabic

English language used in Australia
اَلْإِنْجِلِيزِيَّة الْأُسْتُرَالِيَّة al-ʔingilīziyya l-ʔusturāliyya

Questions about Australian English

What does Australian English mean?
Australian English means the form of the English language used in Australia.
What is Australian English in Arabic?
Australian English in Arabic is اَلْإِنْجِلِيزِيَّة الْأُسْتُرَالِيَّة (al-ʔingilīziyya l-ʔusturāliyya). See Australian English meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is Australian English?
Australian English is a proper noun.

Words near Australian English in the dictionary

  1. Australian Eastern Daylight Time
  2. Australian Eastern Standard Time
  3. Australian emperor
  4. Australian emperors
  5. Australian encephalitis
  6. Australian English
  7. Australian finger lime
  8. Australian finger limes
  9. Australian flame tree
  10. Australian flame trees
  11. Australian football

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Australian English (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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