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Aboriginal vs Whitefeller - What's the difference?

aboriginal | whitefeller |

As nouns the difference between aboriginal and whitefeller

is that aboriginal is an aboriginal inhabitant of australia, aborigine while whitefeller is (australia) a white settler in australia; a non-aboriginal australian; often used attributively .

As an adjective aboriginal

is of or pertaining to australian aboriginal peoples, aborigines, or their language.

As a proper noun aboriginal

is any of the native languages spoken by australian aborigines.

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

    Related terms

    * aborigine

    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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    whitefeller

    English

    Alternative forms

    * whitefella

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively .
    • In native title matters, there is a lot of talk about litigation, mediation, negotiation and questions about whitefeller law.
  • * 1959 , , Yandy , page 11,
    • The whitefellers' did not let anyone but ' whitefellers learn their ways properly, he knew that now.
  • * 1992 , , The Feather and the Stone , 2011, unnumbered page,
    • ‘No use,’ some friends said, miserably. ‘We can?t take them down until sunset, that is whitefeller law.’
  • * 2010 , Adrian Hyland, Gunshot Road , page 4,
    • In the distance the whitefeller lights of Bluebush cast an ugly orange pallor into the sky.
    Gypsy was a Kantulyu woman, grown to adulthood in the desert out west. Hadn?t seen a whitefeller until she was in her twenties.

    Coordinate terms

    * blackfeller