aboriginal

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
adjective of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia

See Aboriginal.

So much for the Aboriginals. — Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Mark Twain
Footnote 418: “On American Aboriginal Poetry,” _Proc. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere
Aboriginal certainly is the camp of the Micmacs. — Acadia: or, A Month with the Blue Noses, Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout) Cozzens

Aborigine, Abo, native Australian, Australian Aborigine

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