Overview of noun aboriginal

The noun aboriginal has 2 senses

• Aborigine, Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine -- (a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived)


• native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal -- (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")

Overview of adj aboriginal

The adj aboriginal has 3 senses

• Aboriginal -- (of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia; "an Aboriginal rite")


• native, aboriginal -- (characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia")


• aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial -- (having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life")