Meaning & Definition of Aboriginal in English

1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in australia when europeans arrived

2. 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"

1. Of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of australia

• "An aboriginal rite"

2. Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning

• "Native americans"

• "The aboriginal peoples of australia"

3. Having existed from the beginning

• 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"