austrocentric

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adjective

Focused on Australia or the people and culture of Australia

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveaustrocentric (comparative more austrocentric, superlative most austrocentric)

comparative more austrocentric · superlative most austrocentric

  1. Focused on Australia or the people and culture of Australia
  2. Focused on Austria or the people and culture of Austria

    In his extensive scholarly work, including his four-volume Deutsche Einheir, Srhik tried to merge and transcend Prussocentric and Austrocentric approaches to German history.

    2001, Peter Thaler, The Ambivalence of Identity: The Austrian Experience of Nation-building in a Modern Society, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 76
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    Although the author claims not to plead for or against the Austrian policy, his study implies on the one hand a criticism of the somewhat biased, austrocentric policy of the government.

    year unknown, Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka, Austria in the New Europe, Transaction Publishers →ISBN, page 168
  3. Focused on the South of England or the people and culture of Southern England

    Expressions such as “North of Watford Gap” testify to the perceptions of southerners in this “austrocentric” nation (Wales 2002: 46).

    2004, A Handbook of Varieties of English: CD-ROM., Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 113
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    All of them have extended "our knowledge of the development of English beyond Southern England" (Rissanen 2000: 11), thereby favouring a non-austrocentric perspective.

    2010, Javier Ruano-García, Early Modern Northern English Lexis: A Literary Corpus-based Study, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 25

Origin

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APA

austrocentric. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/austrocentric

MLA

“austrocentric.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/austrocentric. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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