AUSTRIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Austrian mean? 

• AUSTRIAN (noun)
  The noun AUSTRIAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Austria

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

• AUSTRIAN (adjective)
  The adjective AUSTRIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Austria or its people or culture

  Familiarity information: AUSTRIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTRIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Austria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

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

Austria; Oesterreich; Republic of Austria (a mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century)

Derivation:

Austrian (of or relating to Austria or its people or culture)

• AUSTRIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Austria or its people or culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Austrian music

Pertainym:

Austria (a mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century)

Derivation:

Austria (a mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century)

Austrian (a native or inhabitant of Austria)

 Context examples 

His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The Austrian partner asked for the price to be kept secret, but the commissioner stated the purchase was financed by a loan, so it is not a burden on the state budget.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

In the first study of its kind, Austrian researchers have tracked the movement of microplastics into human beings.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

Through my father’s exertions a part of the inheritance of Elizabeth had been restored to her by the Austrian government.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I felt as if I'd got into a romance, sitting there, watching the Neckar rolling through the valley, listening to the music of the Austrian band below, and waiting for my lover, like a real storybook girl.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In old days there were stirring times, when the Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes, and the patriots went out to meet them—men and women, the aged and the children too—and waited their coming on the rocks above the passes, that they might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the deal, Austrian, United Kingdom and New Zealand production sites are to be kept, with market sales expected to cover for the price in the long run.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

Yesterday at dinner, when an Austrian officer stared at us and then said something to his friend, a rakish-looking baron, about 'ein wonderschones Blondchen', Fred looked as fierce as a lion, and cut his meat so savagely it nearly flew off his plate.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The only thing I found was a great heap of gold in one corner—gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian, and Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in the ground.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Two Austrian researchers, Dr. Philipp Schwabl from the Medical University of Vienna, and Dr. Bettina Liebmann, from the Environment Agency Austria, studied participants from countries including Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the UK and Austria.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)