Definition of Aborigines

1. n. pl. The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

Definition of Aborigines

1. Proper noun. The Australian Aborigine people. ¹

2. Noun. (plural of aborigine) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aborigines

1. aborigine [n] - See also: aborigine

Medical Definition of Aborigines

1. 1. The earliest known inhabitants or indigenous individuals of a country; native races. 2. The original fauna and flora of a geographical area Origin: L. Aborigines; ab + origo, especially the first inhabitants of Latium, those who originally (ab origine) inhabited Latium or Italy. See Origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aborigines

abording
abords
abore
aboricultural
aboriculturist
aboriculturists
aborigen
aborigens
aborigin
aboriginal
aboriginalities
aboriginality
aboriginally
aboriginalness
aboriginals
aborigines (current term)
aboriginie
aborigins
aborn
aborne
aborning
aborsive
abort
abortation
abortations
aborted
aborted ectopic pregnancy
abortee

Literary usage of Aborigines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"Reprinted with Comments by the aborigines' Protection Society. London: 1837. 2. ... Eight Tracts relative to the aborigines. From 1838 to 1842. 4. ..."

2. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"X.) general reasons were given for detaching the American aborigines from the Mongolic connec- peopled from tion, and treating them independently, ..."

3. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1841)
"The aborigines are supposed by Miiller to have been a tribe of barbaric ... It suggests some further inquiry into the history of the aborigines and of the ..."

4. Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet: With Selections from His by Charles Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1848)
"WITH the session of 1836, had closed the sitting of the aborigines' Committee, ... The next few months are very important, as in them the aborigines' Report ..."

5. North America by Israel Cook Russell (1904)
"Some influences on the aborigines of America coming both from Polynesia and eastern Asia must seemingly be admitted, the importations having been by means ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1846)
"In the "Viceroy" are found an exposition of the sufferings of the Mexican aborigines, and their half-blood descendants, under the inhuman yoke of their ..."

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