an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
"the art of the natives of the northwest coast"
"the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"
a member of the people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonization), Aboriginal Australian.
A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people.
The word aborigine is a back-formation derived from the plural noun Aborigines. It was created by removing the suffix to form a singular version of the term.