aboriginal

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsnativeindigenindigeneaborigine

   Broaderperson

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Other forms of aboriginal

plural

aboriginals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aboriginal

What does aboriginal mean?

aboriginal means "characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aboriginal?

aboriginal has 5 syllables: ab-o-rig-i-nal. The stress falls on "rig". In IPA it is /ˌæbɚˈɪdʒənəl/.

What is another word for aboriginal?

Close synonyms include native, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aboriginal a common word?

aboriginal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with aboriginal?

1 word rhymes with aboriginal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.