aborigine
IPA: æbɝˈɪdʒʌni
Root Word: Aborigine
noun
- (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.
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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.