Definitions for Aborigine

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Aborigine ab·o·rig·i·ne

Spelling: [ab-uh-rij-uh-nee]

IPA: /ˌæb əˈrɪdʒ ə ni/

Aborigine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 435 anagrams from letters in Aborigine (abegiinor).

Definitions for Aborigine

noun

1. one of the original or earliest known inhabitants of a country or region.
2. (initial capital letter). Also, Aboriginal. Also called Australian Aborigine. a member of the people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia.
3. aborigines, the original, native fauna or flora of a region.

Origin of Aborigine

1540-50; by back formation from aborigines Latin Aborīginēs the pre-Roman inhabitants of Italy, probably alteration of an earlier ethnonym by association with Examples for Aborigine

It was the way he said the words, like a white trader offering his aborigine captors glass beads to set him free.

His dark, tawny skin, his blanket and features indicated that he was an aborigine.

Now the little Bhil is an aborigine, which is humiliating to think of.

She is an aborigine, sprung from the soil, yet close to the soil, and impossible to lift from the soil.

However, he thought grimly, there was this Australian aborigine.

Just after the capture, an aborigine told his tribe that his death was at hand.

This put him in the position, he told himself, of an Australian aborigine.

He had scratched an aborigine, and to his surprise was finding indications of a man.

Their homes will, as a rule, for sheer uncleanliness, bear comparison with the dwelling of an Australian aborigine.

Sal was not so black as the aborigine, and had been brought up on a mission station.