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Aborigine Common

Aborigine has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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"

2

a member of the people living in Australia when Europeans arrived

3

An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonization), Aboriginal Australian.

4

A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
person Australian ethnic group
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
Levantine Mauritian Filipino Russian Seychellois

Origin

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.

Rhyming Words
ine sine vine line mine bine zine wine dine eine pine gine kine rine fine nine tine cine meine reine
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