"Aborigine" meaning in English

See Aborigine in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ə.ni/ [US], /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-Aborigine.wav Forms: Aborigines [plural]
Etymology: Back-formation from Aborigines. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|Aborigines}} Back-formation from Aborigines Head templates: {{en-noun}} Aborigine (plural Aborigines)
  1. (dated, now offensive) An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonisation), Aboriginal Australian. Tags: dated, offensive Synonyms: Aboriginal, Aboriginal people, Aboriginal Australian (english: neutral term) Hypernyms: Australoid, Indigenous Australian [person] Translations (Aboriginal person from Australia, Aboriginal Australian): 澳洲原住民 (Àozhōu yuánzhùmín) (Chinese Mandarin), 原住民 (yuánzhùmín) (Chinese Mandarin), aboriginer [common-gender] (Danish), aborigine (Finnish), Aborigène [feminine, masculine] (French), Aborigine [feminine, masculine] (German), Αβορίγινας (Avoríginas) [masculine] (Greek), アボリジニ (aborijini) (Japanese), 오스트레일리아 원주민 (oseuteureillia wonjumin) (Korean), 호주 원주민 (hoju wonjumin) (Korean), aborigin [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), aboriginer [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), aborigin [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), aborígine [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), aborigen [masculine] (Romanian), абориге́н (aborigén) [masculine] (Russian), абориге́нка (aborigénka) [feminine] (Russian), Абориџин [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Aboridžin [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), aborigin [common-gender] (Swedish), aboriginer [common-gender] (Swedish), Aborjin (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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