Aborigine
[æbə'rɪdʒɪniː] or ['æbə'rɪdʒəni]
Definition
(noun.) a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
Inputed by Hodge--From WordNet
Examples
- He created a ministry for the care of the aborigines and subject races. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The aborigines knew how to sharpen bones of the animals they killed to scrape, clean, soften or roughen their skins. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We know more about the aborigines of the world than formerly, but our increasing knowledge shows above all things how little we know. Plato. The Republic.
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