austronesian

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of Austronesia or its people or culture

Other forms of austronesian

plural

austronesians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about austronesian

What does austronesian mean?

austronesian means "a native or inhabitant of Austronesia". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in austronesian?

austronesian has 5 syllables: a-u-stro-ne-sian. The stress falls on "ne".

What is another word for austronesian?

Close synonyms include Austronesian language. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is austronesian a common word?

austronesian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.