native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal
(noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; “the art of the natives of the northwest coast”; “the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students”
Aborigine, native Australian, Australian Aborigine
(noun) a member of the people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Aborigine (plural Aborigines)
An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonization), Aboriginal Australian.
• Aboriginal
• Aboriginal people
• Aboriginal Australian (neutral term)
• Australoid
• Indigenous Australian (person of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia)
• baignoire
aborigine (countable and uncountable, plural aborigines)
A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
(in the plural) The native flora and fauna of an area. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
• Usually capitalized in Australian contexts, Aborigine.
• Fowler's 3rd edition considers this singular to be "etymologically indefensible" notwithstanding its having become the established form in Australia since 1829. This is in reference to its inflection from 'Aborigines', not actually originally an S-addition pluralization (see Aborigine/Aborigines/Aboriginal entries in Oxford Dictionary).
• baignoire
Source: Wiktionary
28 November 2024
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
