Aborigines

[ ab-uh-rij-uh-neez ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

aborigines

The earliest known inhabitants of a region. The term is most often associated with the native hunting and gathering population of Australia , who preceded the arrival of white settlers. ( See hunting and gathering societies .)

What we have said of the North American aborigines applies with equal, if not with greater, force to those of the South.

The aborigines were never formidable in battle until they became supplied with the weapons of European invention.

Thus ended the troubles with aborigines of martial mind in William Bradford's time.

For several years reference to the aborigines is of rare occurrence.

It was the work of a moment, but traces of aborigines were unseen.

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