Aboriginal

Quick meaning: Aboriginal is an adjective meaning First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.

Meaning

First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.

More Meanings

1. Living in a land before colonization by foreigners.
2. An animal or plant native to a region.
3. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal

Example Sentences

It may be welldoubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.

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

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

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

Word Forms

• aboriginals

Synonyms for aboriginal

Depending on context, synonyms include ancient, autochthonous, earliest, endemic, first, indigenous.

Antonyms for aboriginal

Common opposites include nonnative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include primordial, primal, primaeval, primeval, early, native.

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