Aboriginal
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aboriginal¹
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ UK
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ Canada, US
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.nəl/ Canada, US
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ Australia
Where it comes from
See Aboriginal.
adjective more aboriginal · most aboriginal
- First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive. Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / […] / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
- Living in a land before colonization by foreigners. Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?
- Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
noun aboriginals
- An animal or plant native to a region. It may be welldoubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
- Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal Every one of the groups of islands in the Pacific, many of them only a few days' sail from Australia, have their own customs, religious, political and social, and yet Australia has none, and the aboriginals have imbibed nothing from their intercourse with other nationalities.
Aboriginal²
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ UK
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ Canada, US
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.nəl/ Canada, US
- /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ Australia
Where it comes from
From aborigine + -al, aborigine being from Latin ab origine (“from the beginning”).
adjective aboriginal
- Of or pertaining to Australian Aboriginal peoples, or their languages. Academics who study Aboriginal languages are [...] contributing to Man’s search for knowledge, a search that interests most people even if they are not personally involved in it.
- Alternative letter-case form of aboriginal.aboriginal
noun Aboriginals · aboriginal
- An Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia or other land.
- Alternative letter-case form of aboriginal.aboriginal
proper noun aboriginal
- Any of the native languages spoken by Australian aborigines.
