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Aborigine   /ˌæbərˈɪdʒəni/   Listen
Aborigine

noun
1.
An indigenous person who was born in a particular place.  Synonyms: aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native.  "The Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"
2.
A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.  Synonyms: Abo, Aboriginal, Australian Aborigine, native Australian.





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"Aborigine" Quotes from Famous Books



... but I have always imagined that even that carven image of an old aborigine must, have smiled a little as ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield
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... "The Man from the Bitter Boots," and a staff artist depicted him as a hairy aborigine that Winfield Harrah had had captured to turn loose on the Spanish gladiator. Which humor Bruce did not relish, for Sprudell's taunt that "muscle" was his only ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart
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... debated with himself. He was no coward. Perhaps this was the extent of their bluff, and if he gave in now he was a fool. And while he debated, Smoke suffered from secret worry lest this stubborn aborigine would persist in ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
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Words linked to "Aborigine" :   Levantine, Seychellois, person, Mauritian, mortal, individual, Russian, someone, indigene, soul, ethnic group, Filipino, somebody, ethnos, Aussie, Australian


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