Meaning of aboriginal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to Australian Aboriginal peoples, or their languages.
   not-comparable
2. First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
3. Alternative letter-case form of aboriginal.
   alt-of, not-comparable
4. Living in a land before colonization by foreigners.
5. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
   alt-of

Equivalents

Examples

“Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / […] / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.”

“Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.”

“Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?”

“Had a vast knowledge of the aboriginal tribes; was, in spite of his juniority, the greatest authority on the aboriginal Gullals.”

“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.”

“I am under no illusions about my mixed-race status; I know I am mixed-race, but with the Aboriginal population being only 3 per cent, with my family being survivors of genocide, I have made my decision.”

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