Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
2. Living in a land before colonization by foreigners.
3. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
4. An animal or plant native to a region.

Example Sentences

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

Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.

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

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

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

Every one of the groups of islands in the Pacific, many of them only a few days' sail from Australia, have their own customs, religious, political and social, and yet Australia has none, and the aboriginals have imbibed nothing from their intercourse with other nationalities.

Word Forms

• more aboriginal
• most aboriginal
• aboriginals

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When Should You Use Aboriginal?

Use aboriginal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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