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aboriginal

noun

1 aboriginal

An indigenous person who was born in a particular place:
— The Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students.

synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native.

Roget 188: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, ... show more

Dutch: inwoner, aboriginal, autochtoon, ingeborene, native
Polish: aborygen, autochton, krajowiec, tubylec, tuziemiec

adjective

1 aboriginal

Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning:
— The aboriginal peoples of Australia.

synonym: native.

Polish: rodzimy

2 aboriginal

Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state:
— Aboriginal forests.

synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial.

Roget 124: old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable; elder, eldest; firstborn.    prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous; paleolontological, ... show more

Roget 153: caused etc. v.; causal, original; primary, primitive, primordial; aboriginal; protogenal; radical; embryonic, embryotic; in embryo, ... show more

Roget 66: beginning etc. v.; initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive, introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative; ... show more

Polish: prymarny, macierzysty, pierwotny, zaczÄ…tkowy


Moby thesaurus: abecedarian, aborigine, ancestral, antenatal, antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthon, autochthonous, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, basal, basic, beginning, budding, central, creative, crucial, elemental, elementary ... show more.

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