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aborigine
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun aborigine has 2 senses
- aborigine(n = noun.person) aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native - an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- aborigine(n = noun.person) abo, aboriginal, australian aborigine, native australian - a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived; Array is a kind of ethnic group, ethnos, aussie, australian
has particulars: levantine, mauritian, filipino, russian, seychellois
Derived form adjective aboriginal2
Derived form adjective aboriginal1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
aborigine, n. (usu. in pl.)
1 an aboriginal inhabitant.
2 (usu. Aborigine) an aboriginal inhabitant of Australia.
1 an aboriginal inhabitant.
2 (usu. Aborigine) an aboriginal inhabitant of Australia.
Usage
Aboriginal is preferred, esp. in the singular.
3 an aboriginal plant or animal.
3 an aboriginal plant or animal.
Etymology
back-form. f. pl. aborigines f. L, prob. f. phr. ab origine from the beginning
THESAURUS
aborigine
Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Stone Age man, aboriginal, ancient, antediluvian, anthropoid, ape-man, autochthon, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, earliest inhabitant, first comer, fossil man, hominid, humanoid, indigene, local, local yokel, man of old, missing link, native, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, primitive settler, protohuman, troglodyte
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