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Meanings of aborigine in English

Portuguese
aborígene
Catalan
aborigen australià

A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.

aborígene
Portuguese
autóctone
Catalan
indígena
Spanish
aborigen

An indigenous person who was born in a particular place.

autóctone

Autochthon.

Usage of aborigine in English
1
Hospitality is the ornament, and has been the ruin, of the aborigine.
Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41
2
Fine red iron-oxide dust settled into everything They had several aborigine servants.
The new yorker
3
But if ever there was an astonished aborigine, Lone Wolf was the same.
In the Pecos Country
4
Even a broad-nosed, foreheadless, blubber-lippedaborigine from the hill-junglesobjected to his presence!
Driftwood Spars / The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Cert...
5
Got some kind of an aborigine caged up in it.
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on...
6
Truly, as the aged Indian prophetess foretold, has the aborigine vanished from the land.
Old Mission Stories of California
7
When the aborigine wandered that way, his seduction was swift.
Imperial Purple
8
But this is not the proper way to look upon the work of the aborigine.
The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It
9
The boys in return nodded, which satisfied the aborigine.
Adrift in the Wilds; Or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys
10
He had scratched an aborigine, and to his surprise was finding indications of a man.
Where the Trail Divides
11
You wouldn't miss Dick's aborigine for anything-andI don't blame you, for he's worth seeing.
The Odds / And Other Stories
12
They now enjoy sugar and tobacco; the aborigine likes wearing clothes, and the life in town.
The new yorker
13
The noble aborigine had come to the conclusion that discretion was the better part of valor.
Adrift in the Wilds; Or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys
14
It was she, who, though representing human liberty, formerly turned her back upon the American aborigine.
American Indian Stories
15
And, very reasonably, surprised, the aborigine did as he was bid and cautiously advanced to inspect me.
Gulliver of Mars
16
The aborigine of America, the Indian, has left "his mark" across and through this Nation.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
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Translations for aborigine
Spanish
aborigen
Aborigine through the time