noun
an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
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Examples
- the art of the natives of the northwest coast
- the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
adjective
characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
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- native Americans
- the aboriginal peoples of Australia
adjective
having existed from the beginning
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- in an earliest or original stage or state
- aboriginal forests
- primal eras before the appearance of life on earth
- the forest primeval
- primordial matter
- primordial forms of life