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əˈrɪdʒadjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or typical of aborigines: aboriginal customs.
2.
original or earliest known; native; indigenous: the aboriginal people of Tahiti.
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- The university has two main campuses and a dozen other regional centers, nine located in aboriginal communities.
- Australia turned into a desert when aboriginal men changed the environment using fire.
- Greenland, populated mostly by aboriginal Inuit, is home to 56000 people.
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| Aboriginal (ˌæbəˈrɪdʒɪnəl) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | of, relating to, or characteristic of the indigenous peoples of Australia |
| —n | |
| 2. | another word for an Australian Aborigine |
| usage The Australian government suggests that the most exact and inclusive way of referring to the indigenous peoples of Australia is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Other terms which are acceptable are: Aboriginal people(s), Australian Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders | |
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aboriginal
1660s, "first, earliest," esp. in ref. to inhabitants of lands colonized by Europeans, from aborigines (see aborigine); specific Australian sense is from 1820. The noun is attested from 1767.
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