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Austral
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Austral has 1 sense
- austral(n = noun.quantity) Array - the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos; Array is a kind of argentine monetary unit
has parts: centavo
Adjective Austral has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
Austral, a. [L. australis, fr. auster: cf. F. austral.].
- Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean. [1913 Webster]
- Designating, or pertaining to, a zone extending across North America between the Transition and Tropical zones, and including most of the United States and central Mexico except the mountainous parts. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Austral, adj.
1 southern.
2 (Austral) of Australia or Australasia ( Austral English).
1 southern.
2 (Austral) of Australia or Australasia ( Austral English).
Etymology
ME f. L australis f. Auster south wind
ROGET THESAURUS
Austral
Contraposition
N contraposition, opposition, polarity, inversion, opposite side, reverse, inverse, counterpart, antipodes, opposite poles, North and South, antonym, opposite (contrariety), opposite, reverse, inverse, converse, antipodal, subcontrary, fronting, facing, diametrically opposite, Northern, septentrional, Boreal, arctic, Southern, Austral, antarctic, over, over the way, over against, against, face to face, vis-a- vis, as poles asunder.
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