Aborigines
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Aborigines is a noun meaning plural of aborigine.
Meaning
plural of aborigine.
More Meanings
- The original people of a location; originally used of ancient Greek and Roman peoples.
- Indigenous flora and fauna.
- (history) The inhabitants of a location before colonization by the Europeans occurred.
Example Sentences
There seems little doubt that the aborigines of Banda were Papuans, and a portion of them still exists in the Ke islands, where they emigrated when the Portuguese first took possession of their native island. It is such people as these that are often looked upon as transitional forms between two very distinct races, like the Malays and Papuans, whereas they are only examples of intermixture.
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