Crossword clues for aborigine
aborigine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1858, mistaken singular of aborigines (1540s; the correct singular is aboriginal), from Latin Aborigines "the first ancestors of the Romans; the first inhabitants" (especially of Latium), possibly a tribal name, or from or made to conform to ab origine, literally "from the beginning." Extended 1789 to natives of other countries which Europeans have colonized. Australian slang shortening Abo attested from 1922.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people. (First attested in the early 19th century.)(R:SOED5: page=6) 2 (context in the plural English) The native flora and fauna of an area. (First attested in the late 17th century.)
WordNet
n. the earliest known inhabitants of a region
a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine]
Wikipedia
Aborigine or aboriginal may refer to:
- Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology the original inhabitants of central Italy
Usage examples of "aborigine".
Wash reached the cover of the Aleut accused by him of aiming directly to finish the Shanghai rooster, and before that startled aborigine could escape, he was disarmed by the black man and dragged across the intervening space to the fort.
No white man ever saw a real corroboree, unless by accident, or more likely, stealth, and perhaps the aborigines were too finished in their bushcraft to allow that ever to happen.
Clever writers about the Reds of the West have told how they rode, and how they ambushed, and of their relentlessness, but not one story shows that they had the bushcraft the equal of that of the Australian aborigine.
Melbourne was a melting pot of the dynamic and hopeless: the pioneers who wanted to carve a future out of the bushland, newly released convicts, dispossessed Aborigines stupefied with rum, government functionaries building a curriculum vitae to take elsewhere, speculators growing rich on credit, and speculators going bankrupt for the lack thereof.
They moored and as Ahmed rowed them ashore welcome calls rang out from the bushland and soon the Aborigines were milling about exchanging greetings and news.
This is a remedy derived from the fruiting bodies of the horsehoof fungus, known to the ancient Greeks and the Australian Aborigines for its remarkable healing properties.
Ahmed asked rapid questions and the man told them he was hired to work as crew on one of the Dutch boats, but had been brought here with other Koepangers and Aborigines against their will and could not leave.
I propose to begin with the natives of Central Australia, first, because the Australian aborigines are the most primitive savages about whom we have full and accurate information, and, second, because among these primitive savages the inhabitants of the central deserts are on the whole the most primitive.
Trappist brother, several Pallottine priests, two sisters, some infants and many adult Aborigines.
He then went on to Bhaugulpore, where he was much interested in a wild tribe called the Puharries, who inhabit the Rajmahal hills, remnants of the aborigines of India.
Its eastern boundary is only an approximate one, Kelantan joining it in the midst of a vast tract of unexplored country inhabited solely by the Sakei and Semang aborigines.
In turn he briefly introduced songs from Zairian pygmies and Australian aborigines.
The aborigines of the swamp would know where the Princesses have gone if any do.
Earth died from the galloping whatdoyoucallits than were killed by animals, accidents and aborigines put together.
Every racial group was represented, the usual rainbow plus a couple of superexotic extrasan Eskimo, an Amerindian, even a taciturn Aborigine.