Meaning of old people | Babel Free

Definitions

Aboriginal people of earlier generations, or living in a traditional manner, as regarded by their descendants as repositories of traditional knowledge.

Australia, plural, plural-only

Examples

“‘You don't see them figs nowhere else up here. And it didn't get here by accident neither. Them old people planted her beside the springs in a sheltered place against the rocks hundreds of years back.’”

“She breathed in the scent of the gum leaves and the wattle blossom washing across the narrow channel that separated them from the Old People.”

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