aborigine

IPA: æbɝˈɪdʒʌni

Root Word: Aborigine

(offensive) An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonization), Aboriginal Australian.
A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people.
(in the plural) The native flora and fauna of an area.

Examples of "aborigine" in Sentences

The Dispersal of the Formosan Aborigines in Taiwan.
It is 'aborigine' that is offensive in some contexts.
MD: We do aborigine style to catch bait fish for catfishing.
The term aborigine, of course, does not designate a single ethnicity.
The truth of the matter is that there is no such thing as an Aborigine.
The word "aborigine" is a noun that refers to a person who is aboriginal.
In Bardi it was always maank ambooriny (= 'black people') or "aborigine" (as noun or adjective) in Aboriginal English.
Sleeping Indian specializes in top-end wool hunting gear, and is named after a mountain in Wyoming rather than after a somnolent aborigine.
My impression is that these terms koori, etc are not very widely known and used in the general population and "aborigine", "aboriginal" or "black people" are the most common.