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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Australia) A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback..
Near-synonym: bushcrafter
An occasional Afghan makes a good bushman. These rare birds, with the help of natives, found that by winding in and out over the soft ground of the valleys they could bring a camel-train where no wheeled transport could go.
To A. B. Paterson, son of a dispossessed squatter, writing from a city office, the bushmen with their horses and simple skills were the backbone of Australia.
Its^([the Bulletin's]) writers shaped ‘a group myth about Australians and their destiny’; in the absence of conventional heroes, visiting the past to claim the bushman as the first ‘Australian’, the anti-hero in the struggles against empire.
Later, historian Russel Ward (1958) famously identified the outback bushman as the “typical” Australian – a rugged individualist, courageous and loyal to his mates.
Use bushman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bushman means (Australia) A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback..
Common synonyms include bushcrafter.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonym: bushcrafter
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