Adjective aboriginal has 2 senses
- native, aboriginal - being or composed of people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia"
- aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial - 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"
Antonym: middle (indirect, via late, early)
Antonym: late (indirect, via early, middle)
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Noun aboriginal has 1 sense
- Aborigine, Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine - a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
--1 is a kind of Australian, Aussie; ethnic group, ethnos
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