1660s, "first, earliest, existing from the beginning," especially in reference to inhabitants of lands colonized by Europeans, from aborigines (see aborigine) + -al (1). The specific Austral [..]

native or indigenous.

A person of Aboriginal descent who identifies as an Aboriginal and is accepted as such by the community in which he or she lives.

adj. Primitive; unsophisticated.

Aboriginal means relating to a group of people native to a geographic region. These are the original inhabitants of a region.

(adj) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning(n) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place(adj) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest o [..]

Aboriginal is a collective term used to describe the three constitutionally recognized Indigenous populations in Canada – ‘Indians’ (First Nations), Métis and Inuit. While the term Aboriginal is commo [..]

Native, aboriginal.

1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines. 2. An animal or a plant native to the region. "It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands." (Darwin) 1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." 2. O [..]

Used with Census and Labour Force Survey data. Refers to a person of Aboriginal ancestry or who identifies as Aboriginal; i.e., North American Indian/First Nations, Métis or Inuit or of mixed Aboriginal or Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ancestry. Aboriginal origin persons are those who indicated one or more ancestries was Aboriginal; Aboriginal iden [..]

First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive./ And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.}} Living in a land before colonization by th [..]

Of or pertaining to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines, or their language.en|aboriginal,en|aboriginal,(1),(3) is an adjective suffix (and thatwas originally an adjective,being the original no [..]

lang=en 1800s=1851 * '''1851''' — . ''''. *: Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan? *: Tashtego's long, [..]

Relating to Indian or Inuit life before the coming of non-native people. Compare CONTACT.