Search Result:Aboriginal
KK Pronunciation
〔 ˏæbәˋrIdʒәnL 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˏæbәˊridʒәnl 〕
Overview of noun aboriginal
The noun aboriginal has 2 senses
- Aborigine, Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine -- (a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived)
- native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal -- (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")
Overview of adj aboriginal
The adj aboriginal has 3 senses
- Aboriginal -- (of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia; "an Aboriginal rite")
- native, aboriginal -- (characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia")
- aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial -- (having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life")