Aboriginal, Aborigine Definition

aboriginal
adj

1. Said of inhabitants: earliest known; indigenous.

Thesaurus: indigenous, original, primal, native, earliest, primordial, ancient, primeval.
2. Referring to the Aboriginals of Australia or one of their languages.

noun

1. A member of a people who were the original inhabitants of Australia.

Form: Aboriginal

Derivative: aboriginally
adverb

Etymology: 17c: from aborigine + -al.

Info:

○ When referring to Australian inhabitants, the preferred forms for the noun are Aborigine in the singular and Aboriginals in the plural; Aboriginal is preferred as an adjective.