aborigines

CEFRB2

/ˌæbəˈrɪdʒəniz/

noun

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Examples

The British brought with them chickenpox, which nearly wiped out the Aborigines.
There was a linguistic mediation between aborigines and immigrants.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The original people of a location; originally used of ancient Greek and Roman peoples.
The inhabitants of a location before colonization by the Europeans occurred.

In context

AO Neville, the Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia until the 1930s, railed against the risk of the creation of a ‘third race’ of half-castes.

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AO Neville, the Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia until the 1930s, railed against the risk of the creation of a ‘third race’ of half-castes.
2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on...
There seems little doubt that the aborigines of Banda were Papuans, and a portion of them still exists in the Ke islands, where they emigrated when the Portuguese first took possession of their native island. It is such people as these that are often looked upon as transitional forms between two very distinct races, like the Malays and Papuans, whereas they are only examples of intermixture.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 456

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Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs.