australian aborigine

1. 1.

   a member of the people living in Australia when Europeans arrived

   SynonymsAboriginenative Australian

   BroaderAustralianethnic group

Questions about australian aborigine

What does australian aborigine mean?

australian aborigine means "a member of the people living in Australia when Europeans arrived".

What is another word for australian aborigine?

Close synonyms include Aborigine, native Australian. 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 australian aborigine a common word?

australian aborigine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.