Associations to the word «Aborigine»

Wiktionary

ABORIGINE, noun. An individual aboriginal Australian.
ABORIGINE, noun. An native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
ABORIGINE, noun. (in the plural) The native flora and fauna of an area. [First attested in the late 17th century.]

Dictionary definition

ABORIGINE, noun. An indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students".
ABORIGINE, noun. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope