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Aboriginal vs Blackfeller - What's the difference?

aboriginal | blackfeller |

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
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aboriginal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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]:
  • Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
  • Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
  • (Aboriginal)
  • Synonyms

    * (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primeval

    Derived terms

    * aboriginality * aboriginally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal or plant native to a region.
  • * Charles Darwin
  • It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
  • (Aboriginal)
  • 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

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    blackfeller

    English

    Alternative forms

    * blackfella

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) An Australian Aboriginal.
  • * 1992 , Bruce Shaw (editor), When the Dust Come in Between: Aboriginal Viewpoints in the East Kimberley Prior to 1982 , page 100,
  • You see we were only like ordinary blackfellers . We didn?t know anything.
  • * 2007 , Noel Olive, Enough is Enough: A History of the Pilbara Mob , 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 ...
  • * 2009 , Alf Barlow, The Two Rainbow Serpents'', in Jeremy Beckett, Luise Hercus, ''The Two Rainbow Serpents Travelling: Mura Track Narratives from the ‘Corner Country’ , page 30,
  • They reckoned they saw a big blackfeller' camp on one side. They made the creek deeper. They named the place ‘Gumbagunbara (' blackfeller )’.

    Coordinate terms

    * whitefeller