Aboriginal vs Blackfeller - What's the difference?
aboriginal | blackfeller |
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
* 1814 , , The Excursion , Longman et al. (publishers), [http://books.google.com/books?id=T18JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=aboriginal page 277]:
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
(Aboriginal)
An animal or plant native to a region.
* Charles Darwin
(Aboriginal)
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(Australia) An Australian Aboriginal.
* 1992 , Bruce Shaw (editor), When the Dust Come in Between: Aboriginal Viewpoints in the East Kimberley Prior to 1982 ,
* 2007 , Noel Olive, Enough is Enough: A History of the Pilbara Mob ,
* 2009 , Alf Barlow, The Two Rainbow Serpents'', in Jeremy Beckett, Luise Hercus, ''The Two Rainbow Serpents Travelling: Mura Track Narratives from the ‘Corner Country’ ,
As nouns the difference between aboriginal and blackfeller
is that aboriginal is an animal or plant native to a region while blackfeller is (australia) an australian aboriginal.As an adjective aboriginal
is first according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive .aboriginal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
Synonyms
* (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primevalDerived terms
* aboriginality * aboriginallyNoun
(en noun)- It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
Usage notes
* Using uncapitalized aboriginal to refer to people or anything associated with people may cause offence. * In Canada, style manuals recommend against using the noun Aboriginal for a person or people. * See also the usage notes under Aboriginal .References
blackfeller
English
Alternative forms
* blackfellaNoun
(en noun)page 100,
- You see we were only like ordinary blackfellers . We didn?t know anything.
page 143,
- The whitefellers? Law said it was a wrong thing to get a blackfeller to leave his district and go elsewhere, so Clancy and his mates were gaoled ...
page 30,
- They reckoned they saw a big blackfeller' camp on one side. They made the creek deeper. They named the place ‘Gumbagunbara (' blackfeller )’.