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Aboriginal

//ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.l̩// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to Australian Aboriginal peoples, or their languages. not-comparable

    "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."

  3. 3
    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?"

  4. 4
    Alternative letter-case form of aboriginal. alt-of, not-comparable
  5. 5
    Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal alt-of
Adjective
  1. 1
    having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state wordnet
  2. 2
    characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the native languages spoken by Australian aborigines.
Noun
  1. 1
    An animal or plant native to a region.

    "It may be welldoubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands."

  2. 2
    An Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia or other land.
  3. 3
    an indigenous person who was born in a particular place wordnet
  4. 4
    Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal alt-of

    "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."

  5. 5
    Alternative letter-case form of aboriginal. alt-of

Etymology

Etymology 1

See Aboriginal.

Etymology 2

See Aboriginal.

Etymology 3

From aborigine + -al, aborigine being from Latin ab origine (“from the beginning”).

Etymology 4

From aborigine + -al, aborigine being from Latin ab origine (“from the beginning”).

Etymology 5

From aborigine + -al, aborigine being from Latin ab origine (“from the beginning”).

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