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Aboriginal   /ˌæbərˈɪdʒənəl/   Listen
Aboriginal

adjective
1.
Of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia.
2.
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning.  Synonym: native.  "The aboriginal peoples of Australia"
3.
Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state.  Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial.  "Primal eras before the appearance of life on earth" , "The forest primeval" , "Primordial matter" , "Primordial forms of life"
noun
1.
A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.  Synonyms: Abo, Aborigine, Australian Aborigine, native Australian.
2.
An indigenous person who was born in a particular place.  Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native.  "The Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"



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"Aboriginal" Quotes from Famous Books



... a while the Negro's religion in Africa. Turning to Bettanny's "The World's Religions" we learn the following facts about aboriginal African worship. ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley
... obstacles they have offered to the progress of settlement and enterprise in certain parts of the country, the Indians are certainly entitled to our sympathy and to a conscientious respect on our part for their claims upon our sense of justice. They were the aboriginal occupants of the land we now possess. They have been driven from place to place. The purchase money paid to them in some cases for what they called their own has still left them poor. In many instances, when they had settled down upon land assigned ...
— Messages and Papers of Rutherford B. Hayes - A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents • James D. Richardson
... of reservations designed to perpetuate the aboriginal life of this country would require the institution of about a dozen other similar natural shelters. It would not be necessary to have these on as large a scale as that of the Yellowstone. In most cases areas of from ten to twenty ...
— Domesticated Animals - Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
... languages (map 2). They were linguistically and historically related to other Yuman-speaking groups of the peninsula and areas to the north (Massey, 1949, p. 292). At the time of European contact these people—like all other aboriginal groups on the peninsula—were hunters, fishers, and gatherers. The nearest agricultural tribes were on the ...
— A Burial Cave in Baja California - The Palmer Collection, 1887 • William C. Massey
... blossoms had fallen here.... Nearly the entire population of this island, 125,000 in all, are Chinese." At Singapore, the town of lions, he met an American hunter named Carroll, who lived with the natives and had won fame as a dead shot. Fortunately for humanity, that contests with the aboriginal beasts a possession of this part of the earth, the leonine fathers frequently devour their cubs, else the earth would be ...
— Charles Carleton Coffin - War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman • William Elliot Griffis


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