aboriginal
/ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.78 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
adj
Living in a land before colonization by foreigners.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
adj
Of or pertaining to Australian Aboriginal peoples, or their languages.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of aboriginal.
noun
An Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia or other land.
Example Sentences
- "Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / […] / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers."
- "Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main."
- "Said Wailan Wangko to Wangi, "Take this ginger and go and blow it on the skulls and the ears of these two images, that they may be able to speak; call the man Adam and the woman Ewa." In this narrative the names of the man and woman betray Christian or Mohammedan influence, but the rest of the story may be aboriginal."
- "Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?"
- "Had a vast knowledge of the aboriginal tribes; was, in spite of his juniority, the greatest authority on the aboriginal Gullals."
- "It may be welldoubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands."
Etymology
See Aboriginal.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/
- British English: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/