aboriginal
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6.5
- adjective
- /ˌæbəˈrɪdʒənl/
:
indígena
- Aboriginal people use trances, which are a kind of stage of hypnosis.
- aboriginal people
- aboriginal rights
- aboriginal title
Amanda is correcting me like I had a teacher, Miss Schwenk, who had who called a conference because she was talking about Aboriginal art.
- Amanda is correcting me like I had a teacher, Miss Schwenk, who had who called a conference because she was talking about Aboriginal art.
- It's an original from the original Latin origo, and from which we get again from the Latin AB origine Aboriginal from the beginning.
Examples
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More important, perhaps, the Supreme Court signaled that aboriginal occupancy could be proved as a historical fact.
Academic text (2008) -
For example, one student spoke of an experience of his roommate, an Aboriginal student.
Academic text (2011) -
Many of these names are of Aboriginal people; some are not.
Academic text (2011) -
This fella song is all about the Aboriginal people.
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Her first professional short story appeared in Aboriginal Science Fiction in the fall of 1994.
Fiction book (1995) -
"Latest evidence suggests that the Aboriginal people have been here... for over 50,000 years."
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Note: First Nations is a Canadian term of ethnicity that refers to the Aboriginal people of Canada.
Academic text (2008) -
The island continent of Australia has been occupied by its aboriginal inhabitants for tens of thousands of years.
Academic text (1999) -
It's an Aboriginal legend.
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The Aboriginal peoples of Australia have a rich tradition of storytelling that connects them to their land.
Synonyms
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1.5
From a particular place originally, often by birth or long history
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5.6
Living or growing naturally in a place and not moved there from somewhere else
Antonyms
Compounds
A person who belongs to the native people of Australia or a language they speak
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aboriginal comes from Latin parts ab- 'from' and origo 'beginning', and you can see the same idea in the word origin. So aboriginal describes people or things that are 'from the beginning' of a place — the original inhabitants.