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[Noun] | "ab*orig*i*ne" | \ ˌa-bə-ˈrij-(ˌ)nē \
1: a member of the original people to inhabit an area especially as contrasted with an invading or colonizing people
2: a member of any of the indigenous peoples of Australia
Origin: 1593 ;
Back-formation from aborigines, plural, borrowed from Latin Aborīginēs, a pre-Roman people of Latium ;
* Note : The Latin name was variously interpreted by ancient authors, though modern etymologies tend to claim that the word is a parasynthetic derivative from the phrase ab origine, "from the beginning/first appearance." This would make sense if the word was formed as a generic name for "first inhabitants," though earlier Latin sources (Cato, Varro) treated it as the name of a specific people. According to Serviusʼs commentary on the Aeneid, Virgil intended "Aboriginum reges" in the line "aliique ab origine reges/Martiaque ob patriam pugnando uolnera passi" (Aeneid 7.180) ["others kings by birth, who suffered battle wounds fighting for their country"], " … sed est metro prohibitus" ["but the meter prohibits it"]. The lexical antiquarian Sextus Pompeius Festus, on the other hand, suggests a connection with aberrāre, "to wander off," as does the Origo gentis Romanae (late 4th century a.d.), which also proffers Greek óros, "mountain." None of these etymologies see:m probable.;
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[Noun] | "aborigines"
1: a member of the first people to inhabit a region;
* e.g., " ... a national sport whose origins can be traced to an ancient game first played by the aborigines "
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[Noun] | "aborigine"
1: a member of the first people to inhabit a region;
* e.g., " ... a national sport whose origins can be traced to an ancient game first played by the aborigines "
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[ "Aboriginal" ]
1: Traditional owners of Australia
* e.g., ... The first people in Australia was the Aboriginals long before British settlement
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[ "Aboriginal" ]
1: The Indigenous race of Australia who have cared for the land for the past 60,000 plus years and maintained the environment in pristine condition until a bunch of greedy English Aristocrats decided to dump their unwanted humans here. Somehow the Aboriginals have managed to survive military onslaught and massacres as well as deliberate poisoning and even testing of Nuclear weapons on them. The constant rape and enslavement resulted in fair skin Aboriginal people being born but not claimed by the white people and they and the full-bloods were forced onto reservations and missions to be 'bred out' and absorbed into the wider community. Today the Aboriginal race is thriving again and asserting their rights much to the dislike of the colonial overlords and their red-neck descendants.
* e.g., ... Aboriginal people are NOT victims, we are SURVIVORS and will outlast all the racist scum who comment below!
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[ "Aborigines" ]
1: The true inventors of dubstep.
* e.g., ... Two guys traveling through the Outback hearing a wierd "wooieooieoo, wooieooieoo" rhythmic sound:
Guy 1: "Is that dubstep I am hearing?!"
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[ "Aboriginal" ]
1: One of the native peoples of Australia, the other being Torres Straight Islanders.
* e.g., ... The Aborginials have been in Australia for 50,000 years.
[ "Aboriginal" ]
2: Before Europeans came to Australia there were hundreds of different tribes and languages. Many were killed and few traditional languages remain.
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[ "Aboriginal" ]
1: A proud and beautiful race of the first nations of the great continent of Australia. Centuries of genocide and systematic dismantling of their language, lands and culture have seen them reduced to a being strangers in their own land. A vibrant people with much to offer.
* e.g., ... The treatment of Aboriginal people is Australia's greatest shame
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[ "Aboriginal" ]
1: Aboriginal
The term Aboriginal derives from Latin Europe. The Aborigine were a people from Latium, now Lazio, in what is now known as Italy. This is part of European mythology. The original Aborigine were genocided by invading cultures. Their leader was Latinus, and his mother was Pandora.
The term Aboriginal is now arrogantly given to the first inhabitants of any lands that are invaded by Europeans, especially the English. The name is given because the invading forces are mocking the original inhabitants, that they will meet the same fate as the original Aborigine, but also to destroy their original identity by imposing upon them a false one. Acts of genocide. The term Indigenous is also used for this purpose because under western Roman law it means to be accepted into the English realm via parliament.
The use of Latin identities for first peoples and cultural others is not uncommon. Europeans called people of African heritage Negroes, and called people of Asian and Middle Eastern heritage Orientals. Palestinian Oxford educated academic and writer Edward Said tells western culture uses these Latin terms this within his book Orientalism. Said claims that the Latin identity terms are a generalisation of first peoples by western culture in order to construct laws, institutions and history to control cultural others.
(To set the record straight and allow the Original First Peoples to be FREE!! of colonial labels constructed to control and oppress)
* e.g., ... Lieutenant James Cook 1770 East Coast of Eora/ Dharawal (Australia/ Sydney aboard the HMS Endeavour): "I can see the Aboriginal"
Eora/ Dharawal peoples (looking out to sea from the shore): Wal-yan-gung!! Wal-yan-gung!! (now Wollongong) "The monster comes!! ...the monster comes!!"
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[ "Aboriginal" ]
1: The people who lived in and cared for country in Australia for 50,000 years before colonisation.
The people who continue to survive in Australia despite colonisation.
The Originals.
* e.g., ... The Aboriginal people of Australia are the curators of the oldest human culture on planet earth.
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[ "Aboriginal" ]
1: A native inhabitant of a country.
* e.g., ... Those Aboriginal's aren't the original inhabitants.
[ "Aboriginal" ]
2: Unlike a lot of definitions on here, NOT Australian natives. They travelled there by boat, just like the English did.
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[ "Aboriginals" ]
1: The Oldest surviving living culture alive, possibly the first race of humans. The Original inhabitants of the Australian continent therefore the landlords of Australia. A proud people.. Survivors of genocide
* e.g., ... Indigenous, Aboriginals of Australia
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[ "aboriginal" ]
1: Referring to the native peoples of any land, though popular usage usually refers to the native people of Australia.
* e.g., ... Yank: My aussie friend here tells me this aboriginal instrument is made from the branch of a hollow tree!
[ "aboriginal" ]
2: The word is derived from the latin phrase "Ab Origene," literally meaning "from the origin."
* e.g., ... Lecturer: The aboriginals of the Americas are often referred to as "Indians," because the first European explorers mistakenly believed they had arrived in the Indies.
[ "aboriginal" ]
3: A person of aboriginal descent is an aborigene, or an "abo" if you like.
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