Australia vs Aboriginal - What's the difference?
australia | aboriginal |
A country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.
* 1693 : translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of ) titled Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe'' published 1692, translation published in London in 1693. Quoted in ''The Australian Language by Sidney J. Baker, second edition, 1966, chapter XIX, section 1, pages 388-9.
* 1814 , (Matthew Flinders), A Voyage to Terra Australis , volume 1 (
(geology) The continent of Australia-New Guinea. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.
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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As adjectives the difference between australia and aboriginal
is that australia is while aboriginal is first according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive .As a noun aboriginal is
an animal or plant native to a region .australia
English
(wikipedia Australia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- This is all that I can have a certain knowledge of as to that side of Australia ...
at Project Gutenberg)
- Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA ; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
Synonyms
* (country) Aussieland (colloquial), land down under, New Holland (historial), Oz (colloquial), Terra Australis (historical) * (continent) Meganesia, SahulHypernyms
* AntipodesDerived terms
* Aussie * Australasia * Australia Day * Australia Felix * Australian * Australianism * Eastralia * Order of Australia * WestraliaSee also
* * AU * Aust *External links
*Australia time zoneswith map and map current local time in Australia. English words suffixed with -ia ----
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.