austral

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: aus=tral

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.]

Austral signs (Astron.), the last six signs of the zodiac, or those south of the equator.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

austral, adj.
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.