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UK
/ˌæbəɹˈɪdʒɪnəl/
]
[ US /ˌæbɝˈɪdʒənəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌæbɝˈɪdʒənəɫ/ ]
NOUN
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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
ADJECTIVE
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having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
aboriginal forests
primordial forms of life
primordial matter
primal eras before the appearance of life on earth
the forest primeval -
characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
native Americans
the aboriginal peoples of Australia
How To Use aboriginal In A Sentence
- The witchetty grub, for the aboriginal people that depended on them, was a very important thing. Times, Sunday Times
- The traditional value of the blades was clearly recognized by their Aboriginal ‘collectors’, who sought to exploit it by hafting a resin handle in the traditional way.
- In recent decades, Taiwan's aboriginals have endured neglect and discrimination.
- I mean, here's a skull that shows the Ainu, the Japanese aboriginal race, were in America nine thousand years ago. AMERICAN GODS
- Fairweather painted mainly in earth colours used by the artists of South-East Asia and the Pacific and he was one of the first artists to assimilate aboriginal art into his own work.
- The other illuminati are equally insignificant from a social point of view: Mary Hare, an elderly spinster; Ruth Godbold, a poor and hard-working housewife; and Alf Dubbo, a part-Aboriginal painter. Patrick White - Existential Explorer
- Have Aboriginal people changed, or is the problem systemic?
- Aboriginal society had mechanisms, even though unformulated and largely unconscious to its practitioners, of dealing with religious flexibility.
- Practical reconciliation has become the accepted Aboriginal policy.
- There is no use in seeing the parlous situation of the Aboriginal community as requiring increased funding. We first have to unshackle ourselves from much of the confusion that prevails.