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aboriginality
  1. The quality of being aboriginal. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
  2. The distinctive culture of aboriginal peoples
  3. The spiritual bonds between the aboriginal people and their place of heritage.
  4. Examples:
    1. “These depictions of Aboriginality are common in Australian film and throughout the mass media.”
      “In their political and personalised affirmation of Aboriginality, they challenge and detach themselves from the European historical narrative.”
      “This was in Kishinv, a hot-bed of noisy, passionate freethinking blended with Asiatic aboriginality.”
aborigine
  1. An native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
  2. (plural) The native flora and fauna of an area. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Senator Aidan Ridgeway is the only aborigine in the national parliament.”
      “There's an old black man, an aborigine, with long, tangled dreadlocks, kneeling at the edge of the pit.”
      “David Jones has studied aborigine culture in depth and produced sculptures on certain sites previously marked by this people.”
Aboriginal
  1. An Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia, Aborigine. [First attested in the 19th century.]
  2. Alternative letter-case form of aboriginal
aboriginal
  1. An animal or plant native to a region. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Once one of the provinces is run by aboriginals, what is to stop an aboriginal man or woman from holding the highest offices in the land?”
Aboriginalism
  1. (derogatory) A Western view of the Aboriginal cultures of Australia as being based around the Dreaming and other traditional mythology, and thus incompatible with modern society.
aborgoin
  1. (US, regional, rare) An aboriginal inhabitant; a Native American.
aboriginalness
  1. The state or condition of being aboriginal.
Aboriginalist
  1. One who subscribes to Aboriginalism.
aborigines
  1. plural of aborigine
  2. The original people of a location, originally Greek and Roman. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
  3. Indigenous flora and fauna. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
  4. (historical) The inhabitants of a location before colonization by the Europeans occurred. [First attested in the early 18th century.]
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Most Taiwanese and aborigines speak both a local language and the national language.”
      “What's really been great is just the sheer pride aborigines get from watching the film.”
      “Why is steatopygia absent among, for example, hunting-gathering Australian aborigines?”
Aboriginalists
  1. plural of Aboriginalist
aboriginalities
  1. plural of aboriginality
Aboriginals
  1. plural of Aboriginal
  2. Examples:
    1. “As I look around me in Central Australia I see dreadful apathy towards education among Aboriginals.”
      “I was brought up in the Northern Territory with Aboriginals, and many of my closest friends are indigenous.”
      “The mining town of Coober Pedy in Australia got its name from the local Aboriginals.”
aboriginals
  1. plural of aboriginal
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Regulations under the Tribal Reserve Act, originally passed in 1956, allow only aboriginals to enter the tribal lands.”
      “Five per year have been allocated to the Makah Native Americans who live on Washington's Olympic Peninsula and the rest to Siberian aboriginals.”
      “The horns are akin to the didgeridoos of the Australian aboriginals and are referred to generically in the Central African Republic as ongo.”
aborgoins
  1. plural of aborgoin
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